The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain

A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English format

This definitive translation of Han Shan''s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and surrounding area where Han Shan ("Cold Mountain") lived.

Cold Mountain is one of the most revered poets in China. He was a Taoist/Buddhist hermit who begged for food at temples, often sang and drank with cowherds, and became an immortal figure in the history of Chinese literature and Zen. His poems were written twelve-hundred years ago on the rocks, trees, and temple walls of China''s Tientai Mountains. This revised edition also includes poems by Han Shan''s colleagues, Pickup (Shih-te) and Big Stick (Feng-kan), translated here for the first time.

As Red Pine begins his Preface, "If China''s literary critics were put in charge of organizing a tea for their country''s greatest poets