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Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
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| #84255 in Books | Counterpoint | 2009-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l,.75 | File type: PDF | 220 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Trudging the mountains of China in search of Taoist and Buddhist hermits.|By jwild|This is a great book about Taoist and Buddhist hermits living in the mountains of China after the Cultural Revolution. In 1989, the author trudged the mountains of China searching for hermits, and he found many monks and nuns living a solitary contemplative life. Most of them lived in austere liv|.com |From 1966 to 1976 the malevolent rage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution struck a devastating blow to all religions in China, destroying countless temples and shrines that had stood for centuries and forcibly returning thousands of monks and nuns to lay l
In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the time, it was believed that the Cultural Revolution had dealt a lethal blow to all religions in China, destroying countless temples and shrines, and forcibly returning thousands of monks and nuns to a lay life.
But when Porter travels to the Chungnan mountains ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits | Bill Porter. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
