My favorite Chinese poet
is Cold Mountain (Han Shan). Cold Mountain lived sometime during or
before the 9th century of the Common Era.
If you are unfamiliar with
Cold Mountain or his art, consider the words of Red Pine: “If
China's literary critics were put in charge of organizing a tea for
their country's greatest poets of the past, Cold Mountain would not
be on many invitation lists. Yet no other poet occupies the altars of
China's temples and shrines, where his statue often stands alongside
immortals and bodhisattvas. He is equally revered in Korea and Japan.
And when Jack Kerouac dedicated The Dharma Bums to
him in 1958, Cold Mountain became the guardian angel of a generation
of Westerners as well.”
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