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Fenggan Fenggan (, Japanese Bukan, fl. 9th century) was a Chinese Zen monk-poet lived in the Tang Dynasty, associated with Hanshan and Shide in the famed "Tiantai Trio" (天台三聖). Biography Legendarily, Feng appeared one day at Guoqing Temple (loca ...

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Trio". Shide lived as a lay monk, and worked most of his life in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple. ShiDe by Yan Hui

An apocryphal story relates how Shide received his name: Once, Fenggan was travelling between Guoqing Temple and the village of Tiantai, when at the redstone rock ridge called 'Red Wall' (赤城) he heard some crying. He investigated, and found a ten-year-old boy who had been abandoned by his parents; and picked him up and took him back to the temple, where the monks subsequently raised him.Cihai Page 692. Shide is referred to as Jittoku in Japanese.

Poetry

Shide wrote a number of poems, 49 of which have survived. According to Xiang Chu in his book ''Cold Mountain Poems and Notes'',''Cold Mountain Poems and Notes'' (1997, 2000, 2010) 3rd edition, by Xiang Chu, Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, China there are 57 poems attributed to Shide. Shide's poems are short; and rarely exceed 10 lines. They are typically on a Buddhist subject, and executed in a style reminiscent of Hanshan's.

References

* ''Cold Mountain Poems and Notes'' (1997, 2000, 2010) 3rd edition, by Xiang Chu, Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, China * Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会）. Ci hai （辞海）. Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she （上海辞书出版社）, 1979. * ''The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain'',

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