Encounters with Cold Mountain: Biography of Han Shan (Chinese Edition) - Softcover

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This book is the biography if Han Shn, a Buddhism monk in the Tang dynasty and also an idol of the ""beat generation"", and a Chinese poet worshiped by Japanese literary scholars. Han Shan has experienced three failures in imperial examinations, fell to adopted in the Ministry of Official Personnel Affairs in feudal China for four times and got divorced twice, then he turned into an adherent in Buddhism in Cold Mountain and spent 40 years on practice and meditation. Renowned Chinese scholar Hu Shi listed Han Shan, Wang Fanzhi and Wang ji three vernacular poets in the Tang dynasty. Gary Snyder has translated 24 pieces of his poems and adhered to Buddhism in Japan under his influence. Jack Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums to show his respect, so did the Hollywood movie Cold Mountain.

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