The Resurrected Skeleton - From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun

The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun



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Wilt Idema | 2014 | ISBN: 0231165048 | English | 344 pages | ePUB | 18 MB

Series: Translations from the Asian Classics

The early Chinese text Master Zhuang (Zhuangzi) is well known for its relativistic philosophy and colorful anecdotes. In the work, Zhuang Zhou ca. 300 B.C.E.) dreams that he is a butterfly and wonders, upon awaking, if he in fact dreamed that he was a butterfly or if the butterfly is now dreaming that it is Zhuang Zhou. The text also recounts Master Zhuang's encounter with a skull, which praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with Chinese poets of the second and third century C.E. and found renewed significance with the founders of Quanzhen Daoism in the twelfth century.