Shih-Te Biography | Poet

Shide (Chinese : ; 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.