LITMIR.BIZ

      © 2014, Text by James P. Lenfestey

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

       Lenfestey, James P.

       Seeking the cave : a pilgrimage to Cold Mountain / James P. Lenfestey.

       pages cm

       ISBN 978-1-57131-897-8 (ebook)

       1. Lenfestey, James P.--Travels--China. 2. Authors, American--21st century--Biography. 3. China--Description and travel. I. Title.

       PS3612.E528Z46 2014

       811'.6--dc23

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      2014004199

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       To Cold Mountain

       and

       Burton Watson, who gave me the gift

       of Cold Mountain’s songs;

       Bill Porter, who took me there;

       Margaret, Mike, and Ed,

       boon companions on the journey.

      CONTENTS

PREFACE:

       Han-Shan Haibun

PROLOGUE:

       My Own Private China

BOOK I

       FINDING THE PATH

ONE On the Road

TWO Between Two Hurricanes

THREE Encounter with the Arch-Translator

FOUR Passage to More than Kyoto

FIVE Kyoto Koan

SIX Rendezvous at Narita

SEVEN Beijing: The Biggest Bell in the World

       EIGHT In Xanadu Did Genghis Khan

       NINE Jia Dao and the Riddle of Sound and Sense

       BOOK II

       FROM BUDDHIST TEMPLES TO SOARING CRANES

       TEN Buddhists for the Night

       ELEVEN Breakfast with Confucius

       TWELVE Speedways, Corn Roads, and Apple Lanes

       THIRTEEN Ordinary and Extraordinary Graves

       FOURTEEN Du Fu’s Sorrow

       FIFTEEN Bai Juyi’s “Idle Droning”

       SIXTEEN What the Old Master Wrote

       SEVENTEEN The Soaring Cranes of Xi’an

       EIGHTEEN Road to Heaven

       NINETEEN First Adventure in Hermit Hunting

       TWENTY An Evening with Dr. Hu

       TWENTY-ONE Turtles All the Way Down

       BOOK III

       SLEEPLESS DREAMS TO DREAMLESS SLEEP

       TWENTY-TWO Give It Its True Name

       TWENTY-THREE Moon Music

       TWENTY-FOUR Drinking Wine with Li Bai

      

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