Citations:Huang-mei

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English citations of Huang-mei

Map including 黃梅 HUANG-MEI (HWANG-MEI) (walled) (AMS, 1954)
  • 1965, Efrem Trettel, Rivers-Rice Fields-Souls[1], Franciscan Herald Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
    I arrived in the city of Huang-mei around eight or nine and crossed the obscure and silent city guided by large stones on the main street. Here and there I could see a light in the dark homes and on occasion a passerby broke the spell of darkness with the arabesques of his lighted and circling sticks.
  • 1990, A. F. Price, Wong Mou-lam, transl., The Diamond Sūtra and the Sūtra of Hui-neng[2], Boston: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
    It must be due to my good karma in past lives that I heard about this, and that I was given ten taels for the maintenance of my mother by a man who advised me to go to Huang-mei to interview the fifth patriarch. After arrangements had been made for her, I left for Huang-mei.
  • 1992, Cheng Chien Bhikshu, Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an[3], Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
    At the age of forty Tao-hsin moved to Shuang-feng Mountain in the district of Huang-mei, present-day Hupeh province. There he attracted a large following; it is said that he had five hundred students studying under him.