TY - BOOK AU - Wu,Kuang-ming AU - Zhuangzi. TI - The butterfly as companion: meditations on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu T2 - SUNY series in religion and philosophy SN - 0585089221 AV - BL1900.C576 W793 1990eb U1 - 299/.51482 19 PY - 1990/// CY - Albany, N.Y. PB - State University of New York Press KW - Zhuangzi. KW - Nanhua jing (Zhuangzi) KW - fast KW - RELIGION KW - Taoism KW - bisacsh KW - Religion KW - hilcc KW - Eastern Religions KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes indexes; Includes bibliographies references (pages 451-458); Prologue: Companion to the butterfly -- Preliminary meditations -- Invitation by a butterfly -- Why companion, not commentary -- Conversation with a roadside skull -- The poetic Chuang Tzu -- Chapter 1: Hsiao Yao Yu: soaring -- and roaming -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditation -- three readings -- The stories -- Roaming, laughing -- A close look -- Chapter 2: Ch'i Wu Lun: things, theories -- sorting themselves out -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- four readings -- Survey -- A detailed look -- What all this means -- Philosophy and "things even-ing themselves out" -- Chapter 3: Yang Sheng Chu: nourishing life -- its inner principle -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- three readings -- Coherence and interrelations -- Segments and words -- Our understanding of the message -- Epilogue: The butterfly as companion -- Inconclusive meditations -- Meaning -- Irony -- Play -- "Companion." UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=7895 ER -