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The collected songs of Cold Mountain = 寒山詩 The collected songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan;en;寒山;Red Pine is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English formatThis definitive translation of Han Shan’s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and surrounding area where Han Shan (“Cold Mountain”) lived.Cold Mountain is one of the most revered poets in China. He was a Taoist/Buddhist hermit who begged for food at temples, often sang and drank with cowherds, and became an immortal figure in the history of Chinese literature and Zen. His poems were written twelve-hundred years ago on the rocks, trees, and temple walls of China’s Tientai Mountains. This revised edition also includes poems by Han Shan’s colleagues, Pickup (Shih-te) and Big Stick (Feng-kan), translated here for the first time.As Red Pine begins his Preface, “If China’s literary critics were put in charge of organizing a tea for their country’s greatest poets of the past, Cold Mountain would not be on many invitation lists. Yet no other poet occupies the altars of China’s temples and shines, where his statue often stands alongside immortals and bodhisattvas. He is equally revered in Kore

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Author
Hanshan;en;寒山;Red Pine
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9781556595554
Category
work of literary fiction
Subjects
Religion, Poetry, History
Rating
4.41 / 5 (530 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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