Buddhism had little influence on Su Shi in his early period for both his family and education background. Su Shi took an outsider's attitudes and gave an objective description of temples, so Buddhism didn't enter into his spiritual field before Fengxiang from the investigation of his poetry at that times. But in Fengxiang period, despite no considerate rise in the number of his poems, the proportion of Buddhist contents increased, which indicated Su Shi really began to notice Buddhism and Zen in his term of office.
