By Paul Rouzer
In this primary severe research of Hanshan (�Cold Mountain�), Paul Rouzer discusses a few seventy poems of the long-lasting chinese language poet who lived someday throughout the Tang dynasty (618�907). Hanshan�s poems received a wide readership in English-speaking international locations following the book of Jack Kerouac�s novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyder�s translations (which started to appear that very same year), they usually were translated into English greater than the other physique of chinese language verse.
Rouzer investigates how Buddhism outlined the best way that believers can have learn Hanshan in premodern instances. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of chinese language literary concept and examines how texts through Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield reply to the East Asian Buddhist culture. �
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