Thanks to Bradford and George, but what I was looking for (doesn't mean I'll get it <grin>) is other than what I already have, what version of Zhuangzi do you...
Something to think about as we get ready to start this. One thing I noticed from my reading is that there are two terms that are missing from the index,...
Just discovered Questia.com: it's a virtual library that on the Chinese side has Graham's Disputers of the Tao, Waley's 3 Ways of Thought, the Journal ...
All page references are to the paperback edition Hansen begins the Chapter on Laozi on page 196- 200 with an intricate discussion of how we might look at the...
... De : "Douglas Henderson" ... Yes, Hansen reads the Daodejing text, deliberately, under the light of the highly philosophical second chapter of the...
An interesting point of view by Kjellberg in Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Ivanhoe & Van Norden). Thomas "In the second century B.C.E., the...
Still, I think that Kjellberg is taking the traditional philosophical view of Zhuangzi (like Hansen); the Confucians did not practice meditation for mystical...
I am puzzled by Kjelbergs comments though. Graham ("Disputers of the Dao") says of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu ""The two names were not at first at first...
I recently posted this question on another board: "According to the Brooks' dating, the Mencius was written around 300 B.C., that is, at the same time as the...
Kjelbergs only repeat a quite spread opinion about Daoism between Chinese scholars. One thing about Confucianism and meditation is a lot of material about it,...
There is some fairly relevant material on the Mencius-Yang Chu-Taoist connection in Fung Yu-lan's History: "Yet why, we must still ask, did Yang's doctrines...
Kohn & LaFargue also write in Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching p.7: "A more common argument against the authenticity of the Tao-te-ching as Lao-tzu's original work...
I've just started reading Daoism: A Short Introduction (http://www.oneworld-publications.com/books/daoism.htm) by James Miller, former student of Liva Kohn....
The school-classification chapter we find in Sima Qian's _Shiji_ is the final postface chapter (130) of the text, however, he is simply recording his father's...
I'm busy reading the Mencius on the Confucius list, and in 3B.5, I found a possible candidate as an anti-Daode-Jing (and also anti- Mohist who value LI, gain,...
Mencius (circa 380-289 B.C.) lived at the same time as Zhuangzi (circa 370-300 B.C.), and as the first author of the Dao De Jing ("Laozi"), and while reading...
... (circa ... ("Laozi"), and ... Mencius' clear ... there is ... this may seem strange, but perhaps Mencius was not aware of them or their ideas. The Laozi...
... De : "facteau8" The Laozi didn't gain the status of a classic until the ... Still, a new piece of evidence is the bamboo Guodian Daodejing from 300 BC.: ...
Hello Usual meanings of Shen: a god or spirit, power beyond comprehension, efficacy, divine, essence, extraordinary, rarefied, etc. Harold Roth says it is "a...
Hi BAO PU (You said comments welcome) I personally would be more careful with the use of Shen than you were in this paragraph: "I therefore think that "inner...
... to ... same ... two,and ... Can you say more about gui and it's relationship to Po? We could also choose a physiological explanation. In classical chinese...
Hi Bradford :-) ... contrast are ofte used to define each other. -- Yes, as Guishen - ghosts and spirits (gui often refers 2 an ancestral spirit, meaning a...
Hello I was reading DC Lau's introduction of his 1963 Dao De Jing. This part intrigued me: As in our view the Lao tzu is an anthology, it is a matter of some ...
Been reading some stuff by a contemporary mystic called U.G. Krishnamurti, and thinking about how this might relate to early Daoism. Actually, U.G. himself...
First, a colleague bowed out of a class at the last minute, so I have added an additional class. On the plus side it means more money and more experience in...
Looking at Amazon for my previous post I came across the following KEY CONCEPTS IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY Sounds interesting, has anyone else tasted it? Dainian...
Zhang Dai Nian is a really good researcher in Chinese philosophy, he have many books about this subject (chinese philosophy concepts), I have two of them one...
Yes I have it and have read it and have thoroughly enjoyed it :-) A great encyclopedia-like book with plenty of quotations from Daoist texts in helping 2...
... Daoist ... of ... Thanks, but one question. When he is comparing concepts, does he do so for the different times periods? That is, is he comparing the ...
