Empty Bowl, paperback
Publication Date: July 1, 2026
Publisher Marketing:
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Red Pine’s translation of Puming’s Oxherding Pictures & Verses is now available. This classic is one of Empty Bowl’s first published books. For this edition, Red Pine has revisited the text, updating the introduction and translations. In these translations of the mysterious Puming's work, Red Pine demonstrates the way in which the ox became a significant metaphor in Chinese Zen literature.
