Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Long ranking among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were written at least twelve centuries ago on trees, rocks, and walls by a semi-mythical Buddhist monk living in the mountains of south-eastern China>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hanshan (Author)
HANSHAN was traditionally thought to be a resclusive seventh-century
Buddhist monk who lived on a mountain in southeast China, writing his poems on rocks and trees. Current consensus is that the poems attributed to him were probably written by two or more people living in the early ninth century.

Peter Harris (External Editor)
Peter Harris is a specialist in the political and cultural history of China. He is the founding Director of the Asian Studies Institute at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and a Visiting Professor at Nanjing University, China. He has written, edited and translated numerous books on China and Asia. Other volumes he has edited for Everyman's Library include The Travels of Marco Polo, Zen Poems and Three Hundred Tang Poems.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hanshan
• Mitarbeit: Peter Harris (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Everyman's Library UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9781841598338
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-833-8
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 112 mm x 165 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik > Lyrik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; China, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY / Asian / Chinese, Buddhism, Classical texts, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, 9th century, c 800 to c 899