Kumarajiva: A Poem By Kunwar Narain. Excerpts translated by Alok Bhalla
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Kunwar Narain’s long narrative poem Kumarajiva is an imaginative meditation on the life of Chinese scholar, teacher and translator of Buddhist texts, Kumarajiva, born in 344 CE. In it the poet attempts to imagine a society where a people could learn to pay ‘mindful attention’ to all sentient beings. Alok Bhalla translates. …[Read More]…