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Chuang Tzus 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 Tzus 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 Chan into the unique vehicle we usually call by its Japanese name, Zen. This is the most thorough presentation to date of the Chuang Tzus poetic beauty, philosophical insights, and unity.

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title The Butterfly As Companion Meditations On the First Three Chapters - photo 1
title:The Butterfly As Companion : Meditations On the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu SUNY Series in Religion and Philosophy
author:Wu, Kuang-ming.; Chuang-tzu.
publisher:State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin:0887066852
print isbn13:9780887066856
ebook isbn13:9780585089225
language:English
subjectChuang-tzu.--Nan-hua ching.
publication date:1990
lcc:BL1900.C576W793 1990eb
ddc:299/.51482
subject:Chuang-tzu.--Nan-hua ching.
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The Butterfly as Companion
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A volume in the SUNY series in Religion and Philosophy
Robert Cummings Neville, Editor
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The Butterfly as Companion
Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu
Kuang-ming Wu
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Published by
State University of New York Press, Albany
1990 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wu, Kuang-ming
The butterfly as companion.
(SUNY series in religion and philosophy)
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
1. Chuang-tzu. Nan-hua ching. I. Chuang-tzu.
Nan-hua ching. English. Selection. II. Title.
III. Series
BL1900.C756W793 1990 299'.51482 87-17986
ISBN 0-88706-685-2
ISBN 0-88706-686-0 (pbk.)
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To Wen-yen
My Companion
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Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Foreword
by Robert Cummings Neville
xi
Preface
xiii
Prologue
Companion to the Butterfly
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Preliminary Meditations
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A. Invitation by a Butterfly
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B. Why Companion, Not Commentary
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C. Conversation with a Roadside Skull
14
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D. The Poetic Chuang Tzu
22
Chapter One
Hsiao Yao Yu
SoaringAnd Roaming
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The Kuo Hsiang Text
35
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Translation with Glosses
47
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MeditationsThree Readings
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A. The Stories
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B. Roaming, Laughing
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C. A Close Look
89
Chapter Two
Ch'i Wu Lun
Things, TheoriesSorting Themselves Out
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The Kuo Hsiang Text
115
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Translation with Glosses
135
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MeditationsFour Readings
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A. Survey
171
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