Hanshan

Han-shan, Kalla Berget, tog sitt namn från den plats som han levde på. Och när han talar om Kalla Berget menar han sig själv, sitt hem och sitt sinnestillstånd. Han levde på 700-talet i Kina som en förryckt eremit och zenmunk högt uppe i bergen i T'ien-t'aiHan-shan skrev poem på klippor och husväggar. Han och hans vänner Shih-te och Feng-kan har inspirerat senare tiders zenkonstnärer till många konstverk. Han-shans poesi har också inspirerat många författare, från den japanske poeten Ryokan (Ryokwan) till moderna författare som Gary Snyder och Jack Kerouac. Karin Lentz skriver i sin BTJ-recension att ""Bo Ranman har under många år ägnat sig åt att tolka kinesiska och japanska poeter, de flesta i buddhistisk anda [...]Författaren redovisar myten om poeten, en skolad man med arbete inom administrationen som av politiska skäl fick fly upp i bergen. [...] Dikterna skrev han på stenar och träd. När hans poesi introducerades i USA blev han en symbol för beatniks m fl." Kalla Bergets Poesi ingår tillsammans med Hårda tider – Wei Ying-wu, Gryningens & skymnings färger – Chia Taos liv & poesi, Su Tung-po – poeten från Östra sluttningen, och Kakuans tio oxherdebilder i boken Kinas Dharmagäng (2015) av Bo Ranman. Se den titeln! Läs mer om boken på www.fripress.se

The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, mystics, crazy hermits, Taoists, and incarnated bodhisattvas, the two monks have been immortalized for centuries in countless Zen paintings and stone carvings. (In Gary Snyder's youthful days you could run into them "in the skid rows, orchards, hobo jungles, and logging camps of America.") In Cold Mountain Zen the acclaimed translator Hiroaki Sato--"the pre-eminent translator of Japanese poetry in our time" (August Kleinzahler, London Review of Books)--has put together an essential selection of Hanshan's poetry with insightful commentary that includes an account of Hanshan's friendship with Shide by the renowned Japanese modernist Mori Ogai, as well as a humorous story of a contemporary sighting of the two monks by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Sato's selection of Hanshan's poetry follows the loose arc of the poet's life, from his days as a scholar and official with a wife and child to his reclusive retreat into "the everyday way" of "no mind," far from the "dusty world," just barely scraping by through the summer blossoms and the freezing cold with his calico cat in the mountain wilderness. These magical translations--infused with sake and music--transport the wild simplicity and rebellious spirit of the Zen master's poetry into a vibrant vernacular for our times.

The best of Hanshan's beloved poems--among the earliest of Zen-style Buddhist poetry, beloved by the Beat Generation--here newly translated and organized thematically in a beautiful Pocket Poets hardcover Often ranked among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were traditionally thought to have been written at least twelve centuries ago on rock walls by a Buddhist monk living in the mountains of southeastern China. The best of his poems, collected here and organized by theme, reflect the sense of humor, deep love of solitude, and vivid descriptions of nature that have endeared these poems to generations of readers. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.