LI Shu-tong was a famous scholar in literature before he got into Buddhism and became a great master of Buddha. What progress did he make in literature after he was in Buddhism? This question had been asked in the mind of many people and it seemed that it has very few serious studies on the master’s Buddhist literature. This paper found out that the master had been the same poet character after he got in Buddhism and produced the poems with sympathetic feature as in secular literature and arts,but more keen in literature and with a flowing thought of poems. Actually, loving lives and sympathizing the weak and the humble and protecting the unfortunates are the nature of literature. Master Hongyi’s interpretation of Buddhism was not superstitious, not religious,not philosophical, but artistic. The master’s Buddhist life was the life of arts and in his 24 years of Buddhist life he pursued arts as obsessed and showed the life value of arts. He left posterity the encouragement of living and strength of peacefulness and tranquility.
