Drifting Skandhas

<p><strong>Drifting Skandhas</strong> is a poetic and philosophical tribute to the Heart Sutra one of the most profound texts in Mahayana Buddhism.</p><p>Li Sen synthesizes academic philosophical artistic literary and poetic modes to transcend traditional boundaries. Using his innovative drift language - a theory and style of poetic prose - he invites readers to engage with the sutra not as argument but as experience imagery and reflection.</p><blockquote><em>The cock crows drinking in the remnants of the sun.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em> The cock coos drinking in fleeting time.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em> Its crows are chained together like the peaks of mountains as swarms of incipient rainclouds hanging in the sky.</em> - Li Sen</blockquote><p>With over thirty ancient Chinese paintings extensive footnotes and contributions from scholars and translators such as Bill Porter (Red Pine) and Deng Zhihui the book bridges traditional Buddhist thought contemporary philosophy and poetic literature.</p><p>Li Sen draws on more than thirty years of research and teaching in Chinese culture literature and Buddhist philosophy to create a work that is simultaneously academic literary and deeply spiritual.</p>