Zen Baggage A Pilgrimage to China

by Pine, Red

• ISBN13: 9781582435404
• ISBN10: 1582435405
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-13
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the first six patriarchs of Zen. Zen Baggage is an account of that journey. He weaves together historical background, interviews with Zen masters, and translations of the earliest known records of Zen, along with personal vignettes. Porter's account captures the transformations taking place at religious centers in China but also the abiding legacy they have somehow managed to preserve. Porter brings wisdom and humor to every situation, whether visiting ancient caves containing the most complete collection of Buddhist texts ever uncovered, enduring a six–hour Buddhist ceremony, searching in vain for the ghost in his room, waking up the monk in charge of martial arts at Shaolin Temple, or meeting the abbess of China's first Zen nunnery. Porter's previously published Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits has become recommended reading at Zen centers and universities throughout America and even in China (in its Chinese translation), and Zen Baggage is sure to follow suit.

Author Biography

Bill Porter, also known as Red Pine, is an acclaimed translator and interpreter of Chinese literature, bringing into English several of China's central religious and literary texts. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Table of Contents

No Word	p. 1
No Buddha	p. 33
No Mountain	p. 53
No Home	p. 79
No Beginning	p. 111
No Form	p. 145
No Mind	p. 161
No Work, No Food	p. 177
No Dust or Mirror	p. 201
No Day Off	p. 215
No Peach Blossoms	p. 229
No East or West	p. 247
No North or South	p. 261
No Floating Belly-Up	p. 277
No End in Sight	p. 311
No Going Back	p. 331
Chinese Lexicon	p. 335
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