On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems

by Paul Rouzer

Book Overview

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 (618-907). 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295742682
• ISBN13: 9780295742687
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher