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Jill Hand
Georgia's wealthiest, most eccentric family is back, and this time someone is trying to murder them using devilishly creative methods. Can FBI Special Agent Carson Burns find the culprit before…
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Red Pine
Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese. Reprinting of the 2nd revised edition, including a new preface and beautiful illustrations. In these translations of the mysterious P'u Ming’s work…
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. This is a book of translation about translating. Red Pine has revisited the poems first translated by Ezra Pound in his Cathay, renewed them through his own…
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. In ZEN ROOTS, Red Pine has gathered nine texts from the first thousand years of Zen. Dating from the middle of the second…
The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. This short text covers more of the Buddhas…
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Red Pine. The two sutras translated in this chapbook were among the first to arrive in China in the first and…
For the first time in any Western language, the complete text of China’s classic poetry anthology.
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Religion and Spirituality. Buddhism. Translated by Red Pine. Empty Bowl is proud to present Red Pine’s newest offering: two sutras that record a…
Roaming the landscape of the Chungnan Mountains, Porter discovered that hermits still flourish. He weaves a background to these characters, describing the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist traditions and myths supporting…
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Presenting Buddhism in a nutshell, this short text covers Buddha’s teachings. For this English translation, the author has utilized various Sanskrit and Chinese versions, refining the teachings of dozens of…
Zen’s first patriarch, Bodhidharma, gave a copy of Lankavatara Sutra to his successor, Hui-k'o, and told him everything he needed to know was in this book. Passed down from teacher…
The three most venerated sutras of Zen in a true pocket-sized edition from a legendary practitioner and translator of Buddhist teachings.
These three Sutras, often linked to form a trio…
Including nine new translations from the first thousand years of Zen, this collection of sacred Buddhist texts with refreshed commentary is made to be carried with you
Dating from the…
Buddhism has inspired some of the greatest philosophical writings. This translation of the Diamond Sutra , the Buddhist teaching on the perfection of wisdom is said to contain answers to…
"A collection of poem translations by Red Pine, also known as Bill Porter"--
Red Pine,Red Pine,Red
A fast-paced travelogue to modern China with Red Pine, who searches for poets’ graves and pays homage with Kentucky bourbon.
Stonehouse
A bilingual Chinese-English volume of mountain poems from a Zen master.
Qu Yuan
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Red Pine. Before Qu Yuan (340-278 B.C.E.), poems in China read as if they could have been written by anyone. Qu Yuan…
Lao Tzu
Revised and re-translated, Red Pine’s best-selling and authoritative translation of Taoteching is now–vitally–available once again.
Yung-Chia
Poetry. Translated by Red Pine. For over a thousand years the SONG OF ENLIGHTENMENT has been one of the most popular texts in all of Eastern Asia.
Tao Yuanming
"A collection of poems by Tao Yuanming, translated by Red Pine who is also known as Bill Porter"--
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Gary Young
Winner of the 2021 Blue Light Poetry Prize
Gary Young's most recent books are That's What I Thought, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award from Persea Books, and…
Stonehouse Stonehouse
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. In 1312, Stonehouse left Hangchou and moved to the northernmost peak of the Tienmu Mountains. It was only twenty kilometers south of Taochang Temple…
Wei Ying-wu
The world’s first substantial selection of English translations of this great T'ang Dynasty poet.
Liu Tsung-yuan
Renowned translator Pine brings into English the work of an ancient Chinese poet little-known in the West. Appended with thoroughly researched notes, an in-depth Introduction, and the Chinese originals, this…
Henry T Bovey
The Strength of Canadian Douglas Fir, Red Pine, White Pine, and Spruce is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on…
Henry Taylor Bovey
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Sung Po-jen
Red Pine is the best-selling and ground-breaking translator of Chinese literature
X F Pine
These are the lost notebooks of a secret performance artist, whose 1990s New York reality is a maze of chance meetings, observations, and obsessions. He is an island without an…
James Tolan,Paul Pines
Poetry. I like the vivid lines that James Tolan is able to produce. He knows how to hold onto the hog and let go at the right moment–Robert Bly. From…
Robert W. McFarlane
A wonderful book … will be enjoyed by anyone with interest in either birds or the impact that humanity is having on its fellow travelers on spaceship earth. -Paul R…
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