Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

Politics & Social Sciences

Bill Porter

Philosophy

Rider&Co

William Lawson: A Scottish Rebel and Other Pioneer Families of Southern Appalachia

Overmountain Press

The New Rules & Tools for a Secure Retirement: 12 True Stories That Will Make a Difference in the Quality of Your Retirement.

Today is yesterday's tomorrow

Presidential Lessons Learned - Follow The Leader

<p>The author recounts his search for, and encounters with, hermits living in the mountains of China and discusses the history of the hermit tradition in China</p>

Mercury House

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. Like most travel literature, Porter takes readers to places few Westerners have ever ventured. 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.

Zen Baggage

Non Basic Stock Line

In the Fall of 1991, Bill Porter decided to travel through this vaporous land, following the old post roads that still connected its administrative centers and scenic wonders, its most famous hometowns and graves, its factories and breweries, its dreamlike memories and its mist, and he was joined on this journey by his poet and photographer friends, Finn Wilcox and Steve Johnson. South of the Yangtze is a record in words and black and white images of their trip.

South of the yangtze (Chinese Edition)

Sichuan Literature & Art Publishing House

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