Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) Book

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. -- Asian AffairsRead More

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  • 0231034504
  • 9780231034500
  • B Watson
  • 1 October 1970
  • Columbia University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 118
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