Category: The Jewelled Garden

Some information about the Sufi, mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam is here. We dabble in the Qur’án now and then,Read, and repent, yet fall from Grace again;But in the goblet Continue Reading →

Sheikh Fariduddin Masud (1173 – 1266 CE), commonly called Baba Farid Ganjeshakar, was a famous Sufi of the Punjab. For more about him, see this earlier post. O Farid,rend your Continue Reading →

For some background on the Turkish poet Niyazi Misri, see this post. I thought that in this whole world     no beloved for me remained. Then I left myself.     Now no stranger in Continue Reading →

For more about the 14th c. CE Persian Sufi and poet Mohammed Shrin Maghribi, see this post. Love’s concert is calling,but the flute can’t be seen. The drunks are in Continue Reading →

Vidyapati (ca. 1352–1448 CE) was an important poet-saint-courtier in the Mathili region of what is now northern Bihar. He was a devotee of Shiva but he also wrote love songs like Continue Reading →

For more about this 18th c. CE Hindu mystic, poet and devotee of the Goddess Kali, see this post. Who in this worldcan understand whatMother Kali really is?The six systems Continue Reading →

For a little more about this dervish and revered Pashto poet, see this earlier post. Lights in the world are those who know,Guides of mankind are those who knowWhen looking Continue Reading →

Shih-te (9th c. CE) was a lay Buddhist monk and poet who was a dharma companion of Han Shan and Feng Kan. For more about him see this earlier post. Continue Reading →

Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179 CE) was born near Mainz, in Germany, and at the age of eight was given into the care of a woman recluse who taught Continue Reading →

Feng-kan, or Big Stick (his name in translation) was one of the ‘Tientai trio’, including Hanshan (Cold Mountain) and Shih-te (Pickup), who lived at Kuoching Buddhist temple in the early Continue Reading →