The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang
The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang

Author: Mary Anne Cartelli

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-12-07

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9004241760

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In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and provide important literary evidence for the development of Buddhism in China. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the poems using Buddhist scriptures and pilgrimage records, as well as the contemporaneous wall-painting of Mount Wutai in Dunhuang cave 61. The poems demonstrate how the mountain was created as a sacred Buddhist space, as their motifs reflect the cosmology associated with the mountain by the Tang dynasty, and they vividly portray the experience of the pilgrim traveling through a divinely empowered landscape.

Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty
Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty

Author: John Minford

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1252

ISBN-13: 9780231096775

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Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.

Register of Reporting Labor Organizations
Register of Reporting Labor Organizations

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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A register of labor organizations which filed reports with the U.S. Department of Labor under the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, as amended, or the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

Excursions in Chinese Culture
Excursions in Chinese Culture

Author: Marie Chan

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9789622019157

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This eclectic collection includes an introduction to the Ming scholar Yang Shen and his wife and translations of some of their poems; an exploration of a middle ground between the literalist and non-literalists approaches to Chinese-English verse translation; a close critical analysis of the relationship between the tonal patterns of a Tang-regulated quatrain and poetic meaning; and a inquiry into the poetic use of function words in Tang poetry.