by Qian Qi (722 - 780)

送僧歸日本
Language: Chinese (中文) 
上國隨緣住， 
來途若夢行。
浮天滄海遠， 
去世法舟輕。

水月通禪寂， 
魚龍聽梵聲。
惟憐一燈影， 
萬里眼中明。

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968) , "Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist priest bound homeward", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 ; composed by Edmund Duncan Rubbra.

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