The Study Of Poet-Monk Jiao Ran

Jiao Ran,a poet-monk who made many achievements in poetry creation,poetic theory and Buddhist thought during prosperous Tang and medieval Tangages.He is not only a poet but also a poetry theorist and a monk.Under thebackground of the dispute among the three religious doctrines and the sectarianwithin monkes in Tang Dynasty,the transformation age of poetic style,thetransformation age of sociology,Jiao Ran is very representative and has thegreat value of the academic research.With the entry point of identity sense of poet-monk,at first,the paper willdiscuss the sense of monk identity particularly showed in his ideal of poetry,poetry creation and poetry theory,reveal the contradiction about his identitysense between poet and monk,probe his exertion to reconcile poetic romanceand Dao.The paper insists the complexity of Jiao Ran’s Buddhism and Zen,butat the age of the Zen of Mount Niutou is very popular,he contacted with thepeople who has relationship with the Zen of Mount Niutou,and his poetryreflect the characteristics of “No matter”,“Forget self-nature”and “Non-sentientbeing has Buddha-nature”,so he has the relationship between Jiao Ran and theZen of Mount Niutou.Reveal the influence to his poetic style of chilly andethereal and features of game caused by this contradiction and exertionhe in thesense of monk identity and the contradiction about his identity sense betweenpoet and monk.In the end,the paper use the concept which Feng Youlanproposed his negative method In New Idealist Philosophy,discuss the negativemethod in Jiao Ran’s poetic theory,highlight the profound influence ofmethodology of poetics affected by Buddhism and Zen.In short,the paper will penetrate a the main line of identity sense ofpoet-monk, reveal a couple of configuration,romance and Dao,solve threeproblems,the relationship between Jiao Ran and the Zen of Mount Niutou,the poetic style of chilly and ethereal and features of game,and the negativemethod in Jiao Ran’s poetic theory.