ARTS: Podcast on Tang era poet, Wang Wei

[Kokuu]

Hi all

Lovers of poetry might enjoy this podcast about the Tang era poet, Wang Wei (王維; 699–759), by writer, poet and Zen teacher Natalie Goldberg.

Wang Wei spent a large part of his life as a government official, but turned to Zen later in his life, studying for ten years with Ch'an master Daoguang.


Here in the mountains after parting
I shut my brushwood door: day ends.
In spring the greening grass will return.
Will you as well, my prince of friends?

https://www.upaya.org/2023/01/goldberg-talking-on-empty/

Gassho
Kokuu
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[Shinshi]

Thank you Kokuu, I'll check it out.

Gassho,

Shinshi

[aprapti]

maybe if you like Wang Wei, you would like this booklet too:

Eliot Weinberger, 19 ways of looking at Wang Wei.

It gives nineteen translations of this one poem




aprapti


sat

[Kokuu]

maybe if you like Wang Wei, you would like this booklet too:

Eliot Weinberger, 19 ways of looking at Wang Wei.

It gives nineteen translations of this one poem

Thanks, Aprapti! That sounds great, although this was my first time of hearing about Wang Wei.

I do have a book called One Hundred Frogs which contains one hundred different translations of Bashi's famous frog haiku!

Gassho
Kokuu
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[aprapti]

I do have a book called One Hundred Frogs which contains one hundred different translations of Bashi's famous frog haiku!

yes, i have that one too..

But for me there is a difference. The 19 poems in the book of Weinberger are translations. So it makes me clear, that Chinese is a difficult language to translate. In the hundred frogs there are translations, but often it are variations or language-games, and that to me is not the same..




aprapti


sat