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Religion and Poetry in Medieval China : The Way and the Words
Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way
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Abstract
Kroll’s essay explores a series of poetic and prose compositions by High Tang poet Li Bo dedicated to Hu Ziyang, a Daoist master who transmitted to Li Bo the esoteric technique of absorbing solar essence and conferred Daoist registers on other of Li Bo’s companions. Li Bo’s most extensive composition on Hu Ziyang is an inscribed stele erected at his tomb site, again alerting us to the significance of materiality in discussing the effect and efficacy of texts. As Kroll reminds us, Li Bo was asked to eulogize Master Hu by the Buddhist monk Zhenqian, revealing the close personal links among Buddhist monks, Daoist priests, and poets.