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Shide (Chinese:拾得;pinyin:Shídé;Wade–Giles:Shih-Te;lit. 'Pick-up or Foundling', fl. 9th century)[1] was aTang dynastyChineseBuddhist poet at theGuoqing Temple onMount Tiantai on theEast China Sea coast; roughly contemporary withHanshan andFenggan, but younger than both of them. As close friends, the three of them formed the "Tiantai Trio". Shide lived as a lay monk, and worked most of his life in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple.
An apocryphal story relates how Shide received his name: Once, Fenggan was travelling between Guoqing Temple and the village of Tiantai, when at the redstone rock ridge called 'Red Wall' (赤城) he heard some crying. He investigated, and found a ten-year-old boy who had been abandoned by his parents; and picked him up and took him back to the temple, where the monks subsequently raised him.[2]
Shide is referred to asJittoku in Japanese.
Iconographically Shide is depicted with a broom, depicting insight and skillful means to remove the appearance of dust from the mundane world.[3]
Shide wrote a number of poems, 49 of which have survived. According to Xiang Chu in his bookCold Mountain Poems and Notes,[4] there are 57 poems attributed to Shide. Shide's poems are short, and rarely exceed 10 lines. They are typically on a Buddhist subject and executed in a style reminiscent of Hanshan's.
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