UNESCO collection of representative works: Chinese series Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang poet Han-Shan
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0231034504
ISBN 13
9780231034500
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Publication Year
1970
Publisher
Pages
118
Subject
Chinese poetry. -- Poésie chinoise 618-907 (Dynastie des T'ang). -- Poetry.
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. - from Amzon
Biblio Notes
115045
Number of Copies
1
