On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems

On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems (China Program Books (Hardcover))

In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618â€“907). Hanshan's poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyder's translations (which began to appear that same year), and they have been translated into English more than any other body of Chinese verse.

Rouzer investigates how Buddhism defined the way that believers may have read Hanshan in premodern times. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of Chinese literary thought and examines how texts by Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield respond to the East Asian Buddhist tradition.
Country USA
Brand University of Washington Press
Manufacturer University of Washington Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780295994994
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Washington Press
Manufacturer	University of Washington Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780295994994
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems (China Program Books (Hardcover))