A wide Northern Song ink landscape on silk of a towering central mountain surrounded by lesser peaks, with forested valleys, a temple among the trees and small travelers on the paths below, beside open water

Pilgrimage to Emptiness in Tang Poetry

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Pilgrimage to Emptiness in Tang Poetry Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, self-portrait. Courtesy of Shantena Augusto Sabbadini Where the hermit is absent, the mountain teaches The Chinese Tang dynasty (618 to 907 CE) has left us some wonderful poems. A recurring theme in these poems is a pilgrimage, a sacred journey seeking spiritual instruction or enlightenment. And

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