Seeing Off a Monk Returning to Japan
送僧歸日本 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Seeing Off a Monk Returning to Japan
On foreign shores I drift as fate decrees—
My eastward road seems but a dream.
The floating sky spreads vast across the sea,
Beyond the world, my dharma boat rides light.
Through moonlit waters I attain the still of Chan;
Fish and dragons listen to my Sanskrit chants.
Only that lone lamplight—
Its image bright across ten thousand miles before my eyes.
送僧歸日本
上國隨緣住一作「至」，一作「去」，來一作「東」途若夢行。
浮天一作「雲」滄海遠，去世法舟一作「船」輕。
水月通禪觀一作「寂」，魚龍聽梵聲。
惟憐一一作「慧」燈一作「塔」影，萬里眼中明。