This author of such short stories as "The Temple" and "Buying a Fishing Rod for My Father," also wrote a work based on the life of Huineng entitled Snow in August.  
In one work by this author, an older couple named Anne and Bernard drag the middle aged writer Daniel and his attractive younger girlfriend into their domestic struggle.  In another work, set during a dream, a train journey forces a nameless traveler to face the evils of the world as represented by the archetypal Tramp, Thug, and Master.  Both of those plays, Weekend Quartet and Nocturnal Wanderer, illustrate what this author refers to as "theatricality," a reaction against the "revolutionary realism" that dominated his homeland's literary scene at the time.  This author of such short stories as "The Temple" and "Buying a Fishing Rod for My Father," also wrote a work based on the life of Huineng entitled Snow in August.  Still another work follows a narrator who seems to change identities as he/she journeys from Sichuan Province to the fabled Lingshan.  For 10 points, identify this author of Soul Mountain.
In one work by this author, an older couple named Anne and Bernard drag the middle aged writer Daniel and his attractive younger girlfriend into their domestic struggle.  
Gao Xingjian