The “Ardent Zen” style in Tue Trung Thuong Si and Yuan Hongdao works

Abstract

The article defines “ardent Zen” as expressing one’s true self without being bound by morality or conventional values. Describe the connection between this concept and the Zen poetry of Tue Trung Thuong Si (1230-1291), a Tran Dynasty aristocrat and Zen master in Vietnam, and Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610), a late Ming poet and literary theorist in China. Yuan Hongdao’s ideas on the Nature Sensibility theory, which he developed using Zen philosophy to find the connection between two people from different eras but the same East Asian cultural environment, and some of Tue Trung Thuong Si’s poems serve as the foundation for this essay. Research indicates that “ardent Zen” is a notion in religious practice as well as a lifestyle that strives for authenticity and inner-world liberty.