Description: Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu's writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name-Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit and paradox and shattering insights into the true ground of being. Thomas Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and was actively engaged with domestic issues of war and racism.
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EAN: 9780811218511
UPC: 9780811218511
ISBN: 9780811218511
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Edition: 2
Book Title: Way of Chuang Tzu
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Zen, Taoism (See Also Philosophy / Taoist), Asian / General, Taoist
Genre: Religion, Philosophy, Poetry
Item Weight: 6.3 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Thomas Merton
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
