Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Red Pine

Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits



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Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits Red Pine ebook
Page: 240
ISBN: 9781582435237
Format: pdf
Publisher: Counterpoint


Porter also has a book on modern day Chinese hermits, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (Mercury House, 1993) that I plan to read. Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Bill Porter. Regarding Red Pine, I'm in the middle of reading his book The Zen Works of Stonehouse, which I must say is excellent. Front covers of Bill Porter's Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits: the original English edition (L) and a Chinese translation. A evening with Bill Porter / Red Pine search of Taoist hermits. His other book that I read which I loved was the Road To Heaven; Encounters With Chinese Hermits. China has an ancient tradition of religious seekers going off to the mountains to live solitary lives. Porter has chronicled his travels in China in several prose books, Road to Heaven and Zen Baggage. In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. I'm reading a book called Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Bill Porter, also known as Red Pine. Encounters with Chinese Hermits.

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