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Informationen zum Autor Peter Harris graduated from Oxford in classical Chinese and has a Ph.D. in Asian history from Monash. He lived and worked for many years in different parts of Asia including China, where he was representative of the Ford Foundation and a visiting professor at Nanjing University. He is now a Senior Fellow in the China Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Volumes he edited for Everyman's Library include The Travels of Marco Polo , The Art of War, Zen Poems, Three Hundred Tang Poems, and Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems. Klappentext The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan. Zusammenfassung The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal! and Zen poetry! with its simple expression of direct! intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment! appeals to lovers of poetry! spirituality! and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China! Japan! and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars! artists! travelers! and recluses! ranging from Wang Wei! Hanshan! and Yang Wanli! to Shinkei! Basho! and Ryokan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Xie Lingyun (385–433) Written on the Lake on my Way Back to the Retreat at Stone Cliff On Climbing the Highest Peak of Stone Gate Setting out at Night from the Pavilion at Stone Pass On Founding a Retreat for the Sangha at Stone Cliff Huineng (638–713) Bodhi originally has no tree If evil flowers bloom in the mind-ground Deluded, a Buddha is a sentient being Wang Wei (?701–761) Enjoying the Cool An Autumn Evening in the Hills Seeking a Night’s Lodging at the Monastery of the Chan Master Daoyi The Wang River Collection In my Lodge at Wang Chuan after a Long Rain Light Lines on a Flat Rock Green Creek Suffering from the Heat Living in the Hills: Impromptu Verses Stone Gate Monastery on Mount Lantian Visiting the Forest Pavilion of the Recluse, Cui Xingzong, with Lu Xiang Farm House on the Wei Stream In the Hills Weeping for Ying Yao Zhongnan Retreat Lines On Missing my Way to the Monastery of Heaped Fragrance Sitting Alone on an Autumn Night Liu Changqing (?710-?85) On Parting with the Buddhist Pilgrim Lingche Rejoicing that the Zen Master Bao Has Arrived from Dragon Mountain Hanshan (?8th century) A thousand clouds among a myriad streams When men see Han-shan When the men of the world look for this path amid the clouds Men ask the way to Cold Mountain Cold cliffs, more beautiful the deeper you enter Clambering up the Cold Mountain path As for me, I delight in the everyday Way So Han-shan writes you these words A telling analogy for life and death In the third month when the silkworms were still small Why am I always so depressed? Parrots dwell in the west country I sit and gaze on this highest peak of all Yesterday I saw the trees by the river’s edge Man, living in the dust My mind is like the autumn moon Shide (?8th century) You can see the moon’s brightness Far, faraway, steep mountain paths I laugh at my failing strength in old age Sami Manzei (8th century) To what shall I compare the world? Chang Jian (fl. 749) Dhyana’s Hall At Wang Changling’s Retreat Jiaoran...
