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The book of chuang tzu henceforth referred to as zhuang zi is a collection of anecdotes, stories, and analogies of zhuang zis teachings on how to achieve the tao, or the way. In the introduction to his zhuangzi translation, the american scholar burton watson concluded his. The book of chuang tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure of chuang tzu. Additional gift options are available when buying one ebook at a time. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable chuang chou. Garden manual, published in the tao of painting by maimai. However, the book itself seems sturdy and wellbound for a paperback, and the. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Taoist teachings from the book of lieh tzu 1912 download. He was a nonconformist in his own time and conveyed his ideas of the tao in energetically poetic prose.
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