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Subject: ASCESTICISM
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY, by JINAPADMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her navel was a well of loveliness
Last Line: In thus preferring abstinence to me
Subject(s): Abstinence; Ascesticism


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 163, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a single cave
Last Line: I have the primordial buddha
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Buddhism; Caves; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Caverns


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 279, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid a thousand clouds and streams
Last Line: Silent like a river in fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature; Idleness; Quiet Life; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 33, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As long as we're bound by the six extremes
Last Line: And none of them owns any pants
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Ascesticism; Chinese Literature