Bill Porter (author)

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Bill Porter, an American author who writes under the name Red Pine, is an acclaimed translator of and interpreter of Chinese texts. He lived in Taiwan Province and Hong Kong and has traveled in China. He now lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

[edit] Works

• The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit (translator)
• Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom by Sung Po-jen (translator)
• Diamond Sutra (translator and extensive commentary)
• Laozi's Tao Te Ching (translator and editor)
• The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (translator and editor)
• The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (translator)
• Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (author)
• The Heart Sutra: the Womb of Buddhas. Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004 (translator w. extensive commentaries)

Several works have been published by Mercury House.

[edit] External links

• Porter/Red Pine's page on Mercury House Publishing
• Kyoto Journal Interview with Bill Porter

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NAME	Porter, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pine, Red
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American author, poet, and translator of poetry
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