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Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

8th Century

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Timeline (730? - 850?)

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English version by
Burton Watson

Original Language
Chinese

[29] I spur my horse past the ruined city;

Themes

Bower

Death

Tree

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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I spur my horse past the ruined city;
the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts:
ancient battlements, high and low;
old grave mounds, great and small.

Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed trembles
and the voice of the great trees clings forever,
I sigh over all these common bones --
No roll of the immortals bears their names.

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About Han-shan (Cold Mountain)

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