The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

✍ Scribed by Hao-Jan, Meng

• Book ID: 100113270
• Publisher: Steerforth Press;Archipelago Books
• Year: 2012;2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 74 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1935744097

✦ Synopsis

Other Books by David Hinton; Title Page; Introduction; Autumn Begins; Gathering Firewood; Listening to Cheng Yin Play His Ch'in; Adrift on North Creek; Climbing Long-View Mountain's Highest Peak; Looking for the Recluse Chang Tzu-jung at White-Crane Cliff; Adrift on a Summer's Day, I Visit the Hermitage of Recluse T'eng; Inscribed on a Wall at Li's Farm, for Ch'i-wu Ch'ien; On Reaching the Ju River Dikes, Sent to My Friend Lu; On Reaching the Han River; Roaming up to Master Jung's Hermitage at Lumen-Empty Monastery; Visiting the Hermitage of Ch'an Monk Jung.;Meng Hao-jan (689-740 C.E.) is generally considered to be one of China's most important poets, but there has never been an edition of his work in English. Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism was coming to maturity and becoming widely practiced among the intelligentsia of China. Ch'an not only clarified anew the spiritual ecology of early Taoist thought, it also emphasized the old Taoist idea that deep understanding lies beyond words. In poetry, this gave rise to a much more distilled language, especially in its concise imagism, which opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. It was i.