9781611807424-1611807425-Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry

Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781611807424
ISBN-10: 1611807425
Edition: Illustrated
Author: David Hinton
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Shambhala
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781611807424
ISBN-10: 1611807425
Edition: Illustrated
Author: David Hinton
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Shambhala
Format: Paperback 160 pages

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Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry (ISBN-13: 9781611807424 and ISBN-10: 1611807425), written by authors David Hinton, was published by Shambhala in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature, Tao Te Ching, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Movements, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.37.

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A deep and radically original exploration of Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist wisdom through the lens of the life and work of Tu Fu, widely considered China's greatest classical poet.

What is consciousness but the Cosmos awakened to itself? This question is fundamental to the Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist worldview that shapes classical Chinese poetry. A uniquely conceived biography, Awakened Cosmos illuminates that worldview through the life and work of Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.), China's greatest classical poet. Tu Fu's writing traces his life from periods of relative normalcy to years spent as an impoverished refugee amid the devastation of civil war. Exploring key poems to guide the reader through Tu Fu's dramatic life, Awakened Cosmos reveals Taoist/Ch'an insight deeply lived across the full range of human experience.

Each chapter presents a poem in three stages: first, the original Chinese; then, an English translation in Hinton's masterful style; and finally, a lyrical essay that discusses the untranslatable philosophical dimensions of the poem. The result is nothing short of remarkable: a biography of the Cosmos awakened to itself in the form of a magisterial poet alive in T'ang Dynasty China.

Thirty years ago, David Hinton published America's first full-length translation of Tu Fu's work. Awakened Cosmos is published simultaneously with a newly translated and substantially expanded version of that landmark translation: The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated (New Directions).
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