Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation (2023)
• October 27th, 2023 • 1h 24min
Documentary
Overview
The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and poetry and traveled to remote regions of China to rediscover an ancient tradition of mountain hermits vital to Chinese culture.
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