| Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan Contributor(s): Watson, Burton (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231034504 ISBN-13: 9780231034500 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1970 Annotation: This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later literature of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, which looked back to these poems as a classic of Zen Literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 895.1 |
| LCCN: 62015847 |
| Series: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 4.71" W x 8.26" (0.28 lbs) 118 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later literature of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, which looked back to these poems as a classic of Zen literature. The poems cover a wide range of subjects: the conventional lament on the shortness of life, bitter complaints about poverty, avarice, and pride, accounts of the difficulty of official life under a bureaucratic system, attacks on the corrupt Buddhist clergy and the foolish attempts by Taoists to achieve immotal life, and incomparable descriptions of the natural world in a mountain retreat. These poems represent the largest number so far made available in English and are important both as vivid descriptions of the wild mountain scenery in Han-shan's home, Cold Mountain, and as metaphors of the poet's search for spiritual enlightenment and peace. |