[PDF.53vs] Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

[PDF.en63] Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

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 | #1356101 in Books |  Mercury House |  2009-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .63 x5.93 x8.98l, | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||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

Drawing on knowledge based on 20 years as a resident of China, Porter examines the ancient Chinese hermit tradition. Part travelogue, part history, part sociology, and part religious study, this record of extraordinary journeys to an unknown China sheds light on a phenomemon unparalleled in the West, and the philosophies that underlie it. Photographs.

You easily download any file type for your device.Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits   |  Bill Porter. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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