Publication
Imprint: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, c1990. Series: SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Responsibility: Kuang-Ming Wu. Language: Primarily in English. Includes the first three chapters of Zhuangzi's Nanhua jing in Chinese, with English translations following. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xiv, 509 pages, 24 cm. Features: Includes appendix, bibliography, indexes, notes.
Call number
GT-D / TX / Zhuangzi
ISBN
0887066860 / 9780887066863
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Named Person: Zhuangzi | Chungtzu | Chung Tzu | Zhou Zhuang | Nanhua jing .
Alternate Title: Zhuangzi | Chuang Tzu : Na hua jing .
Description: Chuang Tzu's first three chapters are arranged into free verse (in Chinese, in the original word order) and translated, nearly word-for-word, with extensive critical glosses vis-a-vis over fifty Chinese, Japanese, and Western commentators. The exegetical, philosophical, and contemporary implications of these chapters are then meditated upon. Here, in Chuang Tzu's world, all strivings are a play, parodying stories and arguments; each plays off of and refers to the others.
Chuang Tzu lived during the third and fourth centuries B. C. Historically, he is the foremost spokesman for Taoism and its legendary founder, Lao Tzu. It was mainly due to the influence of Chuang Tzu that Indian Buddhism was transformed in China into Ch'an into the unique vehicle we usually call by its Japanese name, Zen.
This is the most thorough presentation to date of the Chuang Tzu's poetic beauty, philosophical insights, and unity. -- from publisher
Table of Contents: Acknowledgements
Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville
Preface
Prologue : companion to the butterfly
One : Hsiao Yao Yu : soaring and roaming
Two : Ch'i Wu Lun : things, theories--sorting themselves out
Three : Yang Sheng Chu : nourishing life--its inner principle
Epilogue : the butterfly as companion
Notes, references, index,
Appendix : Wade-Giles to Pinyin
FY1990 /
Alternate Title: Zhuangzi | Chuang Tzu : Na hua jing .
Description: Chuang Tzu's first three chapters are arranged into free verse (in Chinese, in the original word order) and translated, nearly word-for-word, with extensive critical glosses vis-a-vis over fifty Chinese, Japanese, and Western commentators. The exegetical, philosophical, and contemporary implications of these chapters are then meditated upon. Here, in Chuang Tzu's world, all strivings are a play, parodying stories and arguments; each plays off of and refers to the others.
Chuang Tzu lived during the third and fourth centuries B. C. Historically, he is the foremost spokesman for Taoism and its legendary founder, Lao Tzu. It was mainly due to the influence of Chuang Tzu that Indian Buddhism was transformed in China into Ch'an into the unique vehicle we usually call by its Japanese name, Zen.
This is the most thorough presentation to date of the Chuang Tzu's poetic beauty, philosophical insights, and unity. -- from publisher
Table of Contents: Acknowledgements
Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville
Preface
Prologue : companion to the butterfly
One : Hsiao Yao Yu : soaring and roaming
Two : Ch'i Wu Lun : things, theories--sorting themselves out
Three : Yang Sheng Chu : nourishing life--its inner principle
Epilogue : the butterfly as companion
Notes, references, index,
Appendix : Wade-Giles to Pinyin
FY1990 /
Physical description
xiv, 509 p.; 24 cm
Description
Thorough, serious, yet fun to read, this is a translation of the text and an exposition of the philosophy of Chuang Tzu the Taoist of ancient China.