Religion

Buddhism

by Ts’en Ts’an c. AD 750

Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)

Religion

A shrine, whose eaves in far-off cloudland hide:
I mount, and with the sun stand side by side.
The air is clear; I see wide forests spread
And mist-crowned heights where Kings of old lie dead.
Scarce o'er my threshold peeps the Southern
Hill;
The Wei shrinks through my window to a rill
O thou Pure Faith, had I but known thy scope.
The Golden God had long since been my hope!

MLA

Ts’an, Ts’en. “Buddhism.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tsen-tsan/1/.

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Ts’an, Ts’en. “Buddhism.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tsen-tsan/1/.

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