page_title: Shide (monk)
hierarchical_section_title: Shide (monk)
caption_attribution_description: English: ShiDe - Late 13th century painting the Chinese monk Shide. Work by Yan Hui. Color on silk. Tokyo National Museum.
context_page_description: Shide was a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet at the Guoqing Temple on Mount Tiantai on the East China Sea coast; roughly contemporary with Hanshan and Fenggan, 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' 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.
  Shide is referred to as Jittoku in Japanese.
context_section_description: Shide (Chinese: 拾得; pinyin: Shídé; Wade–Giles: Shih-Te; literally: 'Pick-up or Foundling', fl. 9th century) was a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet at the Guoqing Temple on Mount Tiantai on the East China Sea coast; roughly contemporary with Hanshan and Fenggan, 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.
  Shide is referred to as Jittoku in Japanese.
caption: Yan Hui, Shi De 拾得. Color on silk. Tokyo National Museum
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