March 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Hanshan on a broom, and Shide on a banana leaf. Their strange mounts echo Daoist whimsy, where transcendence needs no grandeur, only spirit. 2/2
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hanshan on a broom, and Shide on a banana leaf. Their strange mounts echo Daoist whimsy, where transcendence needs no grandeur, only spirit. 2/2
More Literary Chinese you can use:
筮遭連蹇卦
"I cast my fortune -- all I get is 'Don't.'"
(Hanshan 80)
筮遭連蹇卦
"I cast my fortune -- all I get is 'Don't.'"
(Hanshan 80)
April 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
More Literary Chinese you can use:
筮遭連蹇卦
"I cast my fortune -- all I get is 'Don't.'"
(Hanshan 80)
筮遭連蹇卦
"I cast my fortune -- all I get is 'Don't.'"
(Hanshan 80)
I called Hanshan
in the mountains --
there was no answer
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Pops (53)
//pic : 'cold mountain' (Italy, July '25)
#poetry #imageandverse #haiku #micropoetry #photography #mono #mountains #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #eck #eastcoastkin
in the mountains --
there was no answer
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Pops (53)
//pic : 'cold mountain' (Italy, July '25)
#poetry #imageandverse #haiku #micropoetry #photography #mono #mountains #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #eck #eastcoastkin
August 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I called Hanshan
in the mountains --
there was no answer
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Pops (53)
//pic : 'cold mountain' (Italy, July '25)
#poetry #imageandverse #haiku #micropoetry #photography #mono #mountains #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #eck #eastcoastkin
in the mountains --
there was no answer
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Pops (53)
//pic : 'cold mountain' (Italy, July '25)
#poetry #imageandverse #haiku #micropoetry #photography #mono #mountains #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #eck #eastcoastkin
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An old man rides his bicycle along a narrow street in the Qiaodong district close to Hanshan Normal University.
Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
7 December 2007
#photography #china #color #urban #street
An old man rides his bicycle along a narrow street in the Qiaodong district close to Hanshan Normal University.
Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
7 December 2007
#photography #china #color #urban #street
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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An old man rides his bicycle along a narrow street in the Qiaodong district close to Hanshan Normal University.
Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
7 December 2007
#photography #china #color #urban #street
An old man rides his bicycle along a narrow street in the Qiaodong district close to Hanshan Normal University.
Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
7 December 2007
#photography #china #color #urban #street
Ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk and poet Hanshan, pictured by Japanese poet-painter Yosa Buson (1716–1783).
July 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk and poet Hanshan, pictured by Japanese poet-painter Yosa Buson (1716–1783).
Gorgeous official #WangXian illustration from KAZE 😍💙❤️
Paper coaster for coasting cups, a must-have for collectors:
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#mdzs donghua x KAZE: Cold Mountain/ Hanshan Prayer
#mxtx
Paper coaster for coasting cups, a must-have for collectors:
e.tb.cn/h.RCFj3fCKpd...
#mdzs donghua x KAZE: Cold Mountain/ Hanshan Prayer
#mxtx
July 8, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Gorgeous official #WangXian illustration from KAZE 😍💙❤️
Paper coaster for coasting cups, a must-have for collectors:
e.tb.cn/h.RCFj3fCKpd...
#mdzs donghua x KAZE: Cold Mountain/ Hanshan Prayer
#mxtx
Paper coaster for coasting cups, a must-have for collectors:
e.tb.cn/h.RCFj3fCKpd...
#mdzs donghua x KAZE: Cold Mountain/ Hanshan Prayer
#mxtx
#China #photography #GBLeeArchive
"Worshippers washing hands"
Suzhou, May 1980
The recently reopened Hanshan Buddhist temple.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
"Worshippers washing hands"
Suzhou, May 1980
The recently reopened Hanshan Buddhist temple.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#China #photography #GBLeeArchive
"Worshippers washing hands"
Suzhou, May 1980
The recently reopened Hanshan Buddhist temple.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
"Worshippers washing hands"
Suzhou, May 1980
The recently reopened Hanshan Buddhist temple.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
Man’s life is like the morning mushroom.
Hanshan (Cold Mountain)
trans. Burton Watson
Hanshan (Cold Mountain)
trans. Burton Watson
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Man’s life is like the morning mushroom.
Hanshan (Cold Mountain)
trans. Burton Watson
Hanshan (Cold Mountain)
trans. Burton Watson
#China #photography #GBLeeArchive
"Inside Hanshan Temple"
Suzhou, May 1980
Hanshan Buddhist temple had only recently reopened after closure during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
"Inside Hanshan Temple"
Suzhou, May 1980
Hanshan Buddhist temple had only recently reopened after closure during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
#China #photography #GBLeeArchive
"Inside Hanshan Temple"
Suzhou, May 1980
Hanshan Buddhist temple had only recently reopened after closure during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
"Inside Hanshan Temple"
Suzhou, May 1980
Hanshan Buddhist temple had only recently reopened after closure during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
蘇州寒山寺1980.5
©📷 @gblee.bsky.social
Hanshan 寒山 poem #88, my translation
July 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hanshan 寒山 poem #88, my translation
June 6, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Bit by bit life fades like a guttering lamp,
Passes on like a river that never rests.
Sat a long time till mists had cleared.
Moonrise—the lamp of night drifts upward;
📘Cold Mountain, circa 750
🖊️Hanshan (Chinese Hermit-Poet)
🖼️Precious Light, 2012
🎨Wu Lan-Chiann (Chinese Artist)
#hanshan
Passes on like a river that never rests.
Sat a long time till mists had cleared.
Moonrise—the lamp of night drifts upward;
📘Cold Mountain, circa 750
🖊️Hanshan (Chinese Hermit-Poet)
🖼️Precious Light, 2012
🎨Wu Lan-Chiann (Chinese Artist)
#hanshan
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bit by bit life fades like a guttering lamp,
Passes on like a river that never rests.
Sat a long time till mists had cleared.
Moonrise—the lamp of night drifts upward;
📘Cold Mountain, circa 750
🖊️Hanshan (Chinese Hermit-Poet)
🖼️Precious Light, 2012
🎨Wu Lan-Chiann (Chinese Artist)
#hanshan
Passes on like a river that never rests.
Sat a long time till mists had cleared.
Moonrise—the lamp of night drifts upward;
📘Cold Mountain, circa 750
🖊️Hanshan (Chinese Hermit-Poet)
🖼️Precious Light, 2012
🎨Wu Lan-Chiann (Chinese Artist)
#hanshan
Another Hanshan image to delight. Join us today: Upaya, Feb 27-Mar 1, Kaz Tanahashi, Peter Levitt, Dainin Lau, + Roshi Joan THE POETRY OF COLD MOUNTAIN: A Journey with Legendary Hermit Hanshan through discovery and writing~
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February 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Another Hanshan image to delight. Join us today: Upaya, Feb 27-Mar 1, Kaz Tanahashi, Peter Levitt, Dainin Lau, + Roshi Joan THE POETRY OF COLD MOUNTAIN: A Journey with Legendary Hermit Hanshan through discovery and writing~
www.upaya.org/program/haik...
www.upaya.org/program/haik... FREE
www.upaya.org/program/haik...
www.upaya.org/program/haik... FREE
Doing a survey of photographs published in the Chinese Buddhist periodical Haichao yin 海潮音 between 1920 and 1947. The first issue features images of two mummified monks, Hanshan 憨山 and Huineng 惠能. Similar figures have been imaged and found to have an actual body inside of them.
February 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Doing a survey of photographs published in the Chinese Buddhist periodical Haichao yin 海潮音 between 1920 and 1947. The first issue features images of two mummified monks, Hanshan 憨山 and Huineng 惠能. Similar figures have been imaged and found to have an actual body inside of them.
The great friends Hanshan and Shide are seen on an altar at busy Hanshan Temple in Suzhou, Jiangsu, where tradition says they lived. "Cold Mountain" was a poet whose work is still celebrated; Gary Snyder and Red Pine did excellent modern translations of his work. Shide ("Foundling") was also a poet.
June 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The great friends Hanshan and Shide are seen on an altar at busy Hanshan Temple in Suzhou, Jiangsu, where tradition says they lived. "Cold Mountain" was a poet whose work is still celebrated; Gary Snyder and Red Pine did excellent modern translations of his work. Shide ("Foundling") was also a poet.
May 13, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Because tonight I return to Hanshan(Cold Mountain) to meditate, page six from Moonscape, the book of illustrated #haiku Tre and I did about the moon. #illustration #poetry
December 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Because tonight I return to Hanshan(Cold Mountain) to meditate, page six from Moonscape, the book of illustrated #haiku Tre and I did about the moon. #illustration #poetry
June 5, 2026 at 9:57 AM
only Liu Hai rides a golden toad, while Iron-Crutch Li, Hanshan, and Shide are depicted flying on a cane, a bamboo broom, and a banana leaf, respectively. This showcases the whimsical nature of immortals and their unique modes of transport.
2/2
2/2
March 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
only Liu Hai rides a golden toad, while Iron-Crutch Li, Hanshan, and Shide are depicted flying on a cane, a bamboo broom, and a banana leaf, respectively. This showcases the whimsical nature of immortals and their unique modes of transport.
2/2
2/2
A poem in the style of Hanshan from my book Walking Scarecrow
March 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A poem in the style of Hanshan from my book Walking Scarecrow
#tanka
Hanshan’s Hermitage
a soft rain fell
as I slid into cold mountain—
Sora’s sidelong glance
questioned. I smiled, shrugged, “best
not hearing the merchant’s doorbell.”
Hanshan’s Hermitage
a soft rain fell
as I slid into cold mountain—
Sora’s sidelong glance
questioned. I smiled, shrugged, “best
not hearing the merchant’s doorbell.”
April 20, 2026 at 1:55 AM
#tanka
Hanshan’s Hermitage
a soft rain fell
as I slid into cold mountain—
Sora’s sidelong glance
questioned. I smiled, shrugged, “best
not hearing the merchant’s doorbell.”
Hanshan’s Hermitage
a soft rain fell
as I slid into cold mountain—
Sora’s sidelong glance
questioned. I smiled, shrugged, “best
not hearing the merchant’s doorbell.”
Hanshan hating on meat eaters. JP Seaton translation
November 26, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Hanshan hating on meat eaters. JP Seaton translation