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Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 512 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 227 g, Total Illustrations: 0
  • Sērija : SUNY series in Religious Studies
  • Izdošanas datums: 02-Mar-1990
  • Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN-10: 0887066852
  • ISBN-13: 9780887066856
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 512 pages, height x width x depth: 229x152x25 mm, weight: 227 g, Total Illustrations: 0
  • Sērija : SUNY series in Religious Studies
  • Izdošanas datums: 02-Mar-1990
  • Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN-10: 0887066852
  • ISBN-13: 9780887066856
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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.

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.

Recenzijas

"The aim of the meditation is to bring the reader to understand Chuang-Tzu as a contemporary philosopher as well as an ancient Chinese thinker, yet never is there a blurring of historical distance and context. Wu moves back and forth between China and the Western traditions as if that were easy, like the butterfly's fluttering with which his book begins. The breadth of Wu's scholarship and his calm possession of it are breathtaking."Robert Cummings Neville

Acknowledgements

Foreword
by Robert Cummings Neville

Preface

Prologue

Companion to the Butterfly
Preliminary Meditations
A. Invitation by a Butterfly
B. Why Companion, Not Commentary
C. Conversation with a Roadside Skull
D. The Poetic Chuang Tzu

Chapter One
Hsiao Yao Yu
SoaringAnd Roaming
The Kuo Hsiang Text
Translation with Glosses
MeditationsThree Readings
A. The Stories
B. Roaming, Laughing
C. A Close Look

Chapter Two
Ch'i Wu Lun
Things, TheoriesSorting Themselves Out
The Kuo Hsiang Text
Translation with Glosses
MeditationsFour Readings
A. Survey
B. A Detailed Look
C. What All This Means
D. Philosophy and "Things Even-ing ThemselvesOut"

Chapter Three
Yang Sheng Chu
Nourishing LifeIts Inner Principle
The Kuo Hsiang Text
Translation with Glosses
MeditationsThree Readings
A. Coherence and Interrelations
B. Segments and Words
C. Our Understanding of the Message

Epilogue
The Butterfly as Companion
Inconclusive Meditations
A. Meaning
B. Irony
C. Play
D. "Companion"

Notes

References

Indexes

Conversion Table: Wade-Giles to Pinyin

Kuang-ming Wu is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.