Cottage at Chungnan Mountain

Wang Wei (699–761) was, like many of his contemporaries in that great classical age of Chinese poets, a devout Buddhist.

Taylor Stoehr teaches English literature at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. His poems and translations have appeared recently in Field, Nimrod, Rhino, and New Letters. His most recent book is Ask the Wolf: Ballads and Bequests from François Villon’s “Le Testament” (with illustrations by Stoehr), published by Mariah Books. (updated 2004)