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Shide (, fl. 9th century)Cihai lists Shide as living during the time of emperor Tai Zong who ruled from 626 to 649. See the date controversy in 
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.
Iconographically Shide is depicted with a broom, depicting insight and skillful means to remove the appearance of dust from the mundane world.
The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
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Hanshan
Hanshan may refer to:
* Hanshan (poet) (寒山), a figure associated with a collection of poems from the Tang dynasty
*Hanshan Deqing (憨山德清), a Buddhist monk from the Chinese Ming dynasty
*''Mountain Cry'' (), 2015 Chinese film
PR China
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article. Page 692. was a Tang dynasty
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Buddhist
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poet at the Guoqing Temple
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on Mount Tiantai
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on the East China Sea
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coast; roughly contemporary with Hanshan
Hanshan may refer to:
* Hanshan (poet) (寒山), a figure associated with a collection of poems from the Tang dynasty
*Hanshan Deqing (憨山德清), a Buddhist monk from the Chinese Ming dynasty
*''Mountain Cry'' (), 2015 Chinese film
PR China
* ...
and Fenggan, but younger than both of them. As close friends, the three of them formed the "Tiantai
Tiantai or T'ien-t'ai () is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China. Drawing from earlier Mahāyāna sources such as Madhyamaka, founded by Nāgārjuna, who is traditionally regarded as the f ...
Trio". Shide lived as a lay monk, and worked most of his life in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple.
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.
Iconographically Shide is depicted with a broom, depicting insight and skillful means to remove the appearance of dust from the mundane world.
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.See also
*Classical Chinese poetry
Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry written in Classical Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms, or modes; traditional genres; and connections with particular historical periods, such as the poetry of the Tang dy ...
* Fenggan
* Hanshan (poet)
Hanshan (, ) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, poet, and spiritual writer during the Tang dynasty. He was a Chinese Buddhist and Taoist figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang dynasty in the Taoist and Chan tradition. No ...
* Hanshan Temple
Hanshan Temple (), is a Buddhist temple and monastery in Gusu District of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is located at the town of Fengqiao (lit. Maple Bridge), about west of Suzhou's old city.
Traditionally, Hanshan Temple is believed to hav ...
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'',Red Pine
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, Copper Canyon Press
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Copper C ...
2000,
* Williams, C.A.S, ''Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives'': Dover Publications (New York (1941).
Further reading
* Rouzer, Paul ranslator Nugent, Christopher M. B. ditor(2017)The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
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