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Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way (Paperback)
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Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way (Paperback)
Series: The Sussex Library of Asian & Asian American Studies
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This book is a comparative study of the ninth-century Chinese poet
and recluse Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and Gary Snyder, an American
poet and environmental activist. Joan Tan explains how Chan
Buddhism has the potential to be recognised as an important voice
in contemporary ecopoetry. Mountain-seeing Chan/Zen theory and the
nature -- Chan mirror are employed as aesthetic criteria to
explicate the dual discourses -- spiritual and aesthetic -- which
exist in Han Shan and Snyder's poetry and life work. Snyder's goal
of establishing one ecosystem for all communities encouraged him to
adopt Han Shan as an ideal (albeit Chinese mythical) model and Chan
Buddhism as a global subculture representing environmental values.
This book investigates how Snyder interweaves Chinese cultural
sources in an eclectic way to impose a sense of place, a sense of
mission and a sense of energy in his ecopoetry. His unique
ideogrammatic method -- riprapping -- developed as a result of his
literary indebtedness to the Oriental tradition, makes for a
forceful statement on contemporary ecology. Through Snyder's
successful translation, Han Shan has been revived as an immortal
Beat Poet (Jack Kerouac features prominently in the chapters),
while Cold Mountain has emerged as synonymous with enlightenment.
Snyder himself has become an exemplary representative of an
American Han Shan. The poetic line extending from Han Shan through
to Chan/Zen to contemporary ecology is considered here as a
continuum -- a continuum profoundly enhanced by Snyder's remarkable
achievement of eco-wholeness -- the original goal of Han Shan in
his ecopoetry. Complemented with full Chinese character text and
Glossary.
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