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Red Pine

Autor von The Heart Sutra

29+ Werke 1,508 Mitglieder 19 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 9 Lesern

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Red Pine (the pen name of Bill Porter) is an acclaimed translator and interpreter of Chinese and Sanskrit texts, primarily Buddhist, including poetry and sutras. Previous works he has translated into English include The Platform Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, Lao-tzu's Taoteching, Guide mehr anzeigen to Capturing a Plum Blossom, The Zen Works of Stonehouse, and The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. He is also the author of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits and Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China. He has lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and has traveled extensively in China, visiting Zen temples and the graves of poets, and seeking out hermits. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington. weniger anzeigen

Werke von Red Pine

The Heart Sutra (2004) — Übersetzer — 363 Exemplare
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China (1998) — Herausgeber — 146 Exemplare
The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng (2006) — Übersetzer — 126 Exemplare
Yellow River Odyssey (2014) 21 Exemplare

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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (1962) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben477 Exemplare
The Diamond Sutra (1979) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben397 Exemplare
The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit (1999) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben65 Exemplare
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (1238) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben65 Exemplare
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse (1986) — Übersetzer — 59 Exemplare
The Analog Sea Review: Number Two (2019) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
Stonehouse's Poems for Zen Monks (2019) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben7 Exemplare

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I've rated this as 5⭐, but could just as easily have rated it 1, being the difference between what it probably means and what I understand of its meaning. I found it interesting while elusive, engaging while tiring.

I definitely gleaned some things from it, on an intellectual rather than a spiritual level, but as others have mentioned Red Pine's commentary is dense and certainly beyond my severely limited understanding of Buddhist thought.

However, if there's one thing I've taken from it, it's that the meaning of the sutra and the mantra are beyond intellectual understanding, but if I've understood this I can't have really understood it, so I seem to have got myself into something of a state of spiritual indeterminacy (I don't understand quantum physics either, but then if I said I did ...)… (mehr)
 
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Michael.Rimmer | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 12, 2023 |
Accessible enough and possibly definitive. Goes line-by-line, which entices psychos like me until you’re reading an inordinate number of ancient Chinese commentaries on each phrase.
 
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Popple_Vuh | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Aug 19, 2022 |
'Bill Porter's Road to Heaven is a brillaint essay on the traditions of Chinese hermits, a startling reminder of how far we have gone astray. It should be a part of any serious Zen or Taoist library.'-Jim Harrison

Contents

Chinese dynasties and republics
Map of the Sian area and Chungnan Mountains
One Hermit heaven
Two MOuntains of the moon
Three If the world is muddy
Four On the trail of the tao
Five Sound of the crane
Six Road to Heaven
Seven Cloud people
Eight The bird that is a mountain
Nine Crossing heartbreak ridge
Ten Home of he evening star
Eleven visiting Wang Wei, finding him gone
Twelve When the tao comes to town
Notes on the spelling of Chinese names
Acknowledgments
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AikiBib | 5 weitere Rezensionen | May 31, 2022 |
The Platform Sutra is awesome, and Red Pine does a good job of translating it in a readable way with enough, but not too many, footnotes.
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