The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition) by Cold Mountain, is a translation of the legendary poems of Han Shan, who lived in the ninth century. Translated by Bill Porter, these poems, and their notes, provide a window into the world of blended Taoist/Buddhist Chinese traditions; especially as related to the path of hermits and solitude. Bill Porter explored this in his incomparable work Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. Read Road first, and then this work. You will understand the context of the poems far better.
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