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Bill Porter (Oct 3, 1943--), an American author who writes under the name Red Pine, is an acclaimed translator and interpreter of Chinese and Sanskrit texts, primarily Buddhist, including poetry and Sutras. After dropping out of graduate school at Columbia University in 1972, he lived in Taiwan (including four years in a Buddhist monastery) and Hong Kong. Starting in 1989, he made three trips to China, visiting Zen temples and the graves of poets, and seeking out hermits. In 1999 and 2000, he taught Buddhism and Taoism at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.[1] He now lives in Port Townsend, Washington.[2]
- P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses. Empty Bowl, 1983. (translator)
- Cold Mountain Poems. Copper Canyon, 1983. (translator)
- Mountain Poems of Stonehouse. Empty Bowl, 1985. (translator)
- The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma. Empty Bowl, 1987; North Point Press, 1989. (translator)
- Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. Mercury House, 1993. (author)
- Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom by Sung Po-jen. Mercury House, 1995. (translator)
- Lao-tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years. Mercury House, 1996. (translator and editor)
- The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit. Mercury House, 1997. (translator)
- The Clouds Should Know Me by Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China. Wisdom Publications, 1998. (editor, with Mike O'Connor; and contributing translator)
- The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Copper Canyon Press, 2000. (translator and editor)
- Diamond Sutra. Counterpoint, 2001. (translator and extensive commentary)
- Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. (translator)
- The Heart Sutra: the Womb of Buddhas. Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. (translator w. extensive commentary)
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American author, poet, and translator of poetry |
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