person
The Buddha
the Buddha
also: Siddhartha Gautama
Siddhartha Gautama, the awakened one of Buddhist tradition; here a gilded statue whose stillness Rilke's two 'Buddha' poems contemplate.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §99 Center of all centers
The Buddha in his glory, the closing poem of the New Poems: addressed as the almond-kernel of a cosmic fruit whose flesh reaches to all the stars, already holding within him 'what outlasts the suns.'
- New Poems §18 he is star
The first of Rilke's two Buddha poems: the gilded statue as a self-sufficient star that needs nothing from the worshipper.
- New Poems §59 pilgrim
The second Buddha poem: the approaching pilgrim, bewildered before the gilded statue's gold 'muter, more quietly yellow than anything golden.'
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