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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
Taoist
8th Century

About Han-shan (Cold Mountain)

Timeline (730? - 850?)

 Han-shan (Cold Mountain), Han-shan (Cold Mountain) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Taoist poetry

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English version by
Red Pine (Bill Porter)

Original Language
Chinese
[204] Down to the stream to watch the jade flow

Themes
  Water
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine
A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhalla Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder

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Down to the stream to watch the jade flow
or back to the cliff to sit on a boulder
my mind like a cloud remains unattached
what do I need in the faraway world

 

 

-- from The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine

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