王維詩に見られる空間意識

Abstract

This essay intends to study the sense of space in Wang Wei's poems from three perspectives: the sense of space manifested by "infinite" and "Circle", which embodies the poet's general understanding on the universe; the thoroughly opening up of space, which means that the poet has eliminated and transformed the boundary lines of "Heaven" and "Earth", "above" and "below", "inside" and "outside", so that it presents a crystal clear spiritual space with no impediment; the space of "depth", which shows the poet's recognition of its internal structure, from "depth" to "stillness", from "stillness" to "emptiness", the metaphysics and Zen state of the poems thus occur. In a word, the sense of space in the poems of Wang Wei indicates his profound cultivation of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism.