Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.52
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.52
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Tong Run (14th century) and other poets. Tong Run’s *Early Plum Blossom* was the most famous, which describes how the plum blossom came and went silently. There, its “colour”, “aroma” and “shade” have their own Buddhist meanings signifying that the birth and death of objects are from something to nothing and from nothing to something.