Zhuangzi

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An influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period.

An ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher.

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Academic publishers are more likely than others to adopt pinyin; Columbia University Press changed the titles of Burton Watson 's translations from "Chuang Tzu" to " Zhuangzi " and from "Han Fei Tzu" to " Hanfeizi ". Source: Internet

Zhuangzi, the great anarchic Daoist sage, compared it to "riding on the wind." Source: Internet

First coined by Zhuangzi in the late 4th century BC, it was used to describe a way of life different from that of being actively involved in politics. Source: Internet

Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (book) (《莊子》). Source: Internet

Roth, Harold D. (1999), Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism, Columbia University Press, p. 92. The (c. 3rd century BCE) Daoist Zhuangzi records zuowang or "sitting forgetting" meditation. Source: Internet

The traditional view is that Zhuangzi himself wrote the first seven chapters (the "inner chapters") and his students and related thinkers were responsible for the other parts (the "outer" and "miscellaneous" chapters). Source: Internet

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