Red Pine
Autore di The Heart Sutra
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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. mostra meno
Opere di Red Pine
Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse (2003) — A cura di — 187 copie
Three Zen Sutras: The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, and The Platform Sutra (Counterpoints) (2021) 17 copie
The Missionary Sutras: The Forty-Two Paragraph Sutra & Eight Realizations of a Mahasattva Sutra (2020) 3 copie
William Lawson: A Scottish Rebel 2 copie
The Diamond Sutra 1 copia
taoteching 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit (1999) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 65 copie
Master of the Three Ways: Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life (2012) — Prefazione — 17 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Porter, Bill
- Data di nascita
- 1943-10-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Van Nuys, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Port Townsend, Washington, USA
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Idaho, USA - Istruzione
- University of California, Santa Barbara
Columbia University - Attività lavorative
- translator
- Organizzazioni
- U.S. Army (1964-67)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation (2018)
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Liste
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 1,516
- Popolarità
- #16,964
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 54
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 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 ...)… (altro)