Seeking the Cave · A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain by Lenfestey, James -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface 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 Twenty-Five: Two Depressing Poems in Wuhu Twenty-Six: Beginning-to-Believe Peak Twenty-Seven: The Floating World of Poet-Engineers Twenty-Eight: “Six” and the Single Traveler Twenty-Nine: Cold Mountain: Whose Story Is It? Thirty: The Hermit of Cold Mountain Thirty-One: “The Birds and Their Chatter” Thirty-Two: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Thirty-Three: One New God Thirty-Four: Meanwhile, Back in the Ka-ching

Epilogue: Christmas Morning Postscript: Finding My Own True Name Appendix:

Endnotes Coda Permissions List of Sources Acknowledgments

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