Description: Cold Mountain : One Hundred Poems, Paperback by Han-Shan; Watson, Burton (TRN), ISBN 0231034504, ISBN-13 9780231034500, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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-shans home, Cold Mountain, and as metaphors of the poets search for spiritual enlightenment and peace.
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Book Title: Cold Mountain : One Hundred Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-Shan
Number of Pages: 118 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Topic: Asia / Central Asia, Asian / General, Asia / General, General
Item Height: 0 in
Publication Year: 1970
Features: Reprint
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, History
Item Weight: 4.9 Oz
Author: Burton Watson
Item Length: 0.8 in
Item Width: 0.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
