Wang Wei: I Know Not Where Is The Heaped Fragrance Temple 王維 薄暮空潭曲 安禪制毒龍 Poem by Frank Yue

Passing Through Heaped Fragrance Temple
- Wang Wei


I know not where
Is the Heaped Fragrance Temple;
It may be several miles inside the cloud pinnacles.
Among the ancient trees no human paths are there;
In the hills deep from where are tolls of the bell coming?
Over the rocks precarious, come sounds of the spring bubbling;
Covering the cold pines green the sunbeams a-fading.
In the mist beyond the empty gorge winding,
I sit in quiet, deep meditation
To subdue the Dragon of Temptation.


(2020.11.13)


《過香積寺》 唐•王維

不知香積寺， 數里入雲峰。
古木無人徑， 深山何處鐘。
泉聲咽危石， 日色冷青松。
薄暮空潭曲， 安禪制毒龍。