Authors: Beata Grant
ISBN-13: 9780861713622, ISBN-10: 0861713621
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: Bilingual
Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse — by turns assertive, observant, devout — of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with brief biographical accounts that accompany them, affords readers a glimpse into the extraordinary diversity and sometimes startling richness of these women's lives. Daughters of Emptiness includes original hand-drawn calligraphies of each poet's name, as well as the poems in their original Chinese, alongside the translations.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Abbreviations | 20 | |
Huixu | 22 | |
Fayuan | 26 | |
Haiyin | 28 | |
Plum Blossom Nun | 29 | |
Miaozong | 32 | |
Zhengjue | 34 | |
Benming | 36 | |
Zhenru | 38 | |
Zuqin | 40 | |
Deying | 41 | |
Zhitong | 42 | |
Fahai | 45 | |
Miaozhan | 48 | |
Wulian | 50 | |
Jucqing | 52 | |
One-Eyed Jingang | 54 | |
Jixing | 56 | |
Wuwei | 58 | |
Daoyuan | 60 | |
Shenyi | 62 | |
Zaisheng | 65 | |
Jingwei | 67 | |
Chaoyi | 69 | |
Jingming | 70 | |
Xinggang | 72 | |
Yikui | 78 | |
Jingnuo | 85 | |
Xingche | 92 | |
Jifu | 101 | |
Jizong | 106 | |
Yinyue | 108 | |
Mingxiu | 110 | |
Mingben | 113 | |
Chaoyan | 116 | |
Yuanduan | 120 | |
Miaohui | 121 | |
Shiyan | 123 | |
Wanxian | 126 | |
Kedu | 128 | |
Jizhu | 132 | |
Ziyong | 134 | |
Daoqian | 139 | |
Yinhui | 141 | |
Wuwo | 143 | |
Wuqing | 144 | |
Lianghai | 146 | |
Dawu | 155 | |
Longlian | 157 | |
Sources of Poems | 161 | |
Note | 163 | |
Select Bibliography | 183 | |
Index | 187 |