Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Burton Watson (Translator)Series:UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: EuropeanPublish date:1970-10-22Pages:118
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231034500ISBN-10:231034504UPC:9780231034500Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.26 x 4.71 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCBCPK5TK0
Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan
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...
Series: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231034500ISBN-10:231034504UPC:9780231034500Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.26 x 4.71 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCBCPK5TK0
Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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