The Buddhist Orientation of the Jinggong Style Poems

Wang Anshi’s poems so called with Jinggong Style were the manifestation of the formation and mature of his poetry style, and the Buddhist orientation was the expression of the poet’s high level of intelligence in the character of poetry. Wang Anshi was an idealist as well as a politician, and the two aspects of him made a profound contradiction in one person. The poet pursued spiritual ideal as well as rational wisdom, eventually, he only took Confucian and Mencius domestically, and Buddhism externally in his poetry domain. From Confucian and Mencius, he recognized the great tragedy of Confucianism in realization but retreating to apprentice, from the Buddhism, he awared the supreme wisdom of the differentiation of secular law and non-secular law and worked on it and benefited his whole life. The Jinggong Style poems were in the leading of time with protective consciousness of human resources for living as well as with the indulgent description of nature, as the song of Buddha. The poems also had the Buddhist ethic standard.