Red Pine
Auteur de The Heart Sutra
A propos de l'auteur
Red Pine (the pen name of Bill Porter) is an acclaimed translator and interpreter of Chinese and Sanskrit texts, primarily Buddhist, including poetry and sutras. Previous works he has translated into English include The Platform Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, Lao-tzu's Taoteching, Guide afficher plus to Capturing a Plum Blossom, The Zen Works of Stonehouse, and The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. He is also the author of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits and Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China. He has lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and has traveled extensively in China, visiting Zen temples and the graves of poets, and seeking out hermits. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington. afficher moins
Œuvres de Red Pine
Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse (2003) — Directeur de publication — 187 exemplaires
The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China (1998) — Directeur de publication — 146 exemplaires
Three Zen Sutras: The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, and The Platform Sutra (Counterpoints) (2021) 17 exemplaires
The Missionary Sutras: The Forty-Two Paragraph Sutra & Eight Realizations of a Mahasattva Sutra (2020) 3 exemplaires
William Lawson: A Scottish Rebel 2 exemplaires
The Diamond Sutra 1 exemplaire
taoteching 1 exemplaire
Yung-chia's Song of Enlightenment 1 exemplaire
La Médula del Zen. Las enseñanzas de Bodhidharma 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit (1999) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 65 exemplaires
Master of the Three Ways: Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life (2012) — Avant-propos — 17 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Porter, Bill
- Date de naissance
- 1943-10-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Van Nuys, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Port Townsend, Washington, USA
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Idaho, USA - Études
- University of California, Santa Barbara
Columbia University - Professions
- translator
- Organisations
- U.S. Army (1964-67)
- Prix et distinctions
- Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation (2018)
Membres
Critiques
Accessible enough and possibly definitive. Goes line-by-line, which entices psychos like me until you’re reading an inordinate number of ancient Chinese commentaries on each phrase.
'Bill Porter's Road to Heaven is a brillaint essay on the traditions of Chinese hermits, a startling reminder of how far we have gone astray. It should be a part of any serious Zen or Taoist library.'-Jim Harrison
Contents
Chinese dynasties and republics
Map of the Sian area and Chungnan Mountains
One Hermit heaven
Two MOuntains of the moon
Three If the world is muddy
Four On the trail of the tao
Five Sound of the crane
Six Road to Heaven
Seven Cloud people
Eight The bird that is a mountain
Nine Crossing heartbreak ridge
Ten Home of he evening star
Eleven visiting Wang Wei, finding him gone
Twelve When the tao comes to town
Notes on the spelling of Chinese names
Acknowledgments… (plus d'informations)
Contents
Chinese dynasties and republics
Map of the Sian area and Chungnan Mountains
One Hermit heaven
Two MOuntains of the moon
Three If the world is muddy
Four On the trail of the tao
Five Sound of the crane
Six Road to Heaven
Seven Cloud people
Eight The bird that is a mountain
Nine Crossing heartbreak ridge
Ten Home of he evening star
Eleven visiting Wang Wei, finding him gone
Twelve When the tao comes to town
Notes on the spelling of Chinese names
Acknowledgments… (plus d'informations)
The Platform Sutra is awesome, and Red Pine does a good job of translating it in a readable way with enough, but not too many, footnotes.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,519
- Popularité
- #16,928
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 54
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 9
I definitely gleaned some things from it, on an intellectual rather than a spiritual level, but as others have mentioned Red Pine's commentary is dense and certainly beyond my severely limited understanding of Buddhist thought.
However, if there's one thing I've taken from it, it's that the meaning of the sutra and the mantra are beyond intellectual understanding, but if I've understood this I can't have really understood it, so I seem to have got myself into something of a state of spiritual indeterminacy (I don't understand quantum physics either, but then if I said I did ...)… (plus d'informations)