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HAVING spent a decade in Taiwan practicing Chinese Zen, one of the major sects of Buddhism, and writing and translating books introducing Zen to Western readers, American Bill Porter came to China’s mainland in the 1980s in search of the few living Zen hermits.The book that his travels produced,Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits, was first published in 1993 and again in 2009. It introduced its American and European, and even many Chinese, readers to the modern hermits residing in the Zhongnan Mountains and aroused Western interest in traditional Chinese culture.
HAVING spent a decade in Taiwan practicing Chinese Zen, one of the major sects of Buddhism, and writing and translating books in Zen to Western readers, American Bill Porter came to China’s mainland in the 1980s in search of the few living Zen hermits.The book that his travels produced, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits, was first published in 1993 and again in 2009. It introduces its American and European, and even many Chinese, readers to the modern hermits residing in the Zhongnan Mountains and aroused Western interest in traditional Chinese culture.