Red Pine (author)

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. He took a degree in anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara and went on to graduate studies in language (Chinese) and anthropology at Columbia University, but dropped out in 1972 to go to the the Fo Kwang Shan Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. In the years following, he lived in Taiwan 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 1993, after twenty-two years in East Asia, he returned to the US. In 1999 and 2000, he taught Buddhism and Taoism at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. [http://kyotojournal.org/interviews/redpine.html KJ Interviews: Dancing with Words: Red Pine's Path into the Heart of Buddhism] ] He now lives in Port Townsend, Washington. [Pine 2000, p. 309]

Works

* "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)

Notes

References

*Pine, Red (2000). "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain". ISBN 1-55659-140-3

External links

* [http://www.mercuryhouse.org/porter.html Porter/Red Pine's page on Mercury House Publishing]
* [http://kyotojournal.org/interviews/redpine.html Kyoto Journal Interview with Bill Porter]

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