This collection is one of the earliest and most important works
of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the
later literature of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, which looked back to
these poems as a classic of Zen literature. The poems cover a wide
range of subjects: the conventional lament on the shortness of
life, bitter complaints about poverty, avarice, and pride, accounts
of the difficulty of official life under a bureaucratic system,
attacks on the corrupt Buddhist clergy and the foolish attempts by
Taoists to achieve immotal life, and incomparable descriptions of
the natural world in a mountain retreat. These poems represent the
largest number so far made available in English and are important
both as vivid descriptions of the wild mountain scenery in
Han-shan's home, Cold Mountain, and as metaphors of the poet's
search for spiritual enlightenment and peace.
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