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• Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
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• Release Date : 15 June 2014

A bilingual Chinese-English volume of mountain poems from a Zen master.

• Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
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• Release Date : 01 July 2009

Stonehouse has been called “the greatest of all Zen monks who made poetry their medium of instruction.” His works have rarely been available in English, but now all of the

• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
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• Release Date : 03 May 2024

In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as idea and in actual practice. But Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433 C. E.) was there

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 03 May 2024

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "In 1312, Stonehouse left Hangchou and moved to the northernmost peak of the Tienmu Mountains. It was only twenty kilometers south of Taochang Temple, where he

• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
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• Release Date : 17 May 2005

The earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This

• Publisher : Shambhala Publications
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• Release Date : 11 April 2006

The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive

• Publisher : Catapult
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• Release Date : 10 August 2009

In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At

• Publisher : Vintage
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• Release Date : 01 January 1994

Since the Chinese have, historically, always looked up to and encouraged their hermits, Bill Porter wondered whether these people still existed in China today. Roaming the landscape of the Chungnan

• Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
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• Release Date : 15 June 2013

"It is one of the very first art books which helped artists develop the aptitude for seeing the inner essence of various natural phenomena."—Shambhala Sun "Red Pine introduces Western

• Publisher : Shambhala Publications
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• Release Date : 13 April 2004

The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758–1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice,