Han-shan (Cold Mountain): Clambering up the Cold Mountain path

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Clambering up the Cold Mountain path

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

by Han-shan (Cold Mountain)
(730? - 850?) Timeline

English version by
Gary Snyder

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

8th Century

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path,
The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on:
The long gorge choked with scree and boulders,
The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass.
The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain
The pine sings, but there's no wind.
Who can leap the world's ties
And sit with me among the white clouds?

-- from Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder

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Themes

Mountain

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: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder

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