Poet-monk Jiao Ran

While absorbing the nutrition of the essentials and compromising the inherent doctrine of traditional Chinese culture, the east transmission of Buddhism into China was getting a process of becoming thoroughly sinicized and a permanent part of Chinese religion, and was flourishing in the field of theory, culture and art etc., especially in Tang Dynasty in which Buddhism was at its peak while various independent sects were active and learn mutually. Such zeitgeist influenced the whole scope of intellectual, officials and literate monk. Therefore, poet-monk, a special status was appeared. One of representatives was Jiao Ran.The structure of this paper is as follows.The first chapter is about all of his life experiences and social communications with others. He lived in the middle Tang dynasty, which is an epoch of downfalling. He affiliated himself with almost every personage in southeast of China. The total he contacted could be up to 200 persons. The second chapter is an introduction of his theory about Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Since he lived in the traditional Chinese culture, his human theory is the combination of those three ones and especially focus on Buddhism. The third chapter is his creative writing life. By talking about that, what the author wants to say is his carnal life. The forth chapter is the connection between the Buddhism and his creative theory. The fifth and the last chapter is the influences of Jiao Ran to contemporary and aftertime. The first point is the relationship between Jiao Ran and other southern port-monk like Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi, Meng Jiao and Ling Che etc., and how he impacted some later poets, such as Si Kongtu, Mei Raochen, Yan Yu and Wang Shizhen and so on.All in all, understanding for poet-monk Jiao Ran, it not only means the understanding for the literature of poet-monks and secularism, but also means a better understanding of the relationship between Buddhism and literature and Tang Poets, which is helpful for understanding of Chinese literature to much deeper extent.