* this edition is the first attempt to translate all 224 poems included in the Poems of the Masters into any Western language * Red Pine’s scholarship and extensive notes (just as in his Collected Songs of Cold Mountain and Taoteching) are exemplary, and add a valuable dimension to the poems * Red Pine is one of the world’s most respected translators of Chinese literature, bringing into English several of China’s central religious and poetic texts: Taoteching, The Diamond Sutra, Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma * Red Pine’s understanding of Chinese language, culture, and history is informed by his years living in a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan and his extensive travels throughout mainland China