Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China by Porter, Bill

Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582435404)

Vendor: Bill Porter
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Format: Paperback
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Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China by Porter, Bill

Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

$17.95
Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China by Porter, Bill

Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter's account captures the transformations taking place at religious centers in China but also the abiding legacy they have somehow managed to preserve. Porter brings wisdom and humor to every situation, whether visiting ancient caves containing the most complete collection of Buddhist texts ever uncovered, enduring a six-hour Buddhist ceremony, searching in vain for the ghost in his room, waking up the monk in charge of martial arts at Shaolin Temple, or meeting the abbess of China's first Zen nunnery. Porter's previously published Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits has become recommended reading at Zen centers and universities throughout America and even in China (in its Chinese translation), and Zen Baggage is sure to follow suit.

Author: Bill Porter
ISBN-10: 1582435405
ISBN-13: 9781582435404
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2010
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Bill Porter
By Bill Porter
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Bill Porter (aka "Red Pine") is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts; he assumes the pen name "Red Pine" for his translations.

Writing as Red Pine, he was the first translator to ever translate the entirety of Han-shan's oeurve into English, published as The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Red Pine was also the first to translate into English the entirely of The Poems of the Masters. He has also translated several of the major Buddhist sutras, including the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and Platform Sutra.

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