The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Fu Lang(苻朗): The Di Prince Who Wrote Zhuangzi for a New Age

Fu Lang(苻朗): The Di Prince Who Wrote Zhuangzi f...

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Fu Lang was a Di prince of the Former Qin who faced execution with the calm of a man who had already thought his way past death. His lost book,...

Fu Lang(苻朗): The Di Prince Who Wrote Zhuangzi f...

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Fu Lang was a Di prince of the Former Qin who faced execution with the calm of a man who had already thought his way past death. His lost book,...

Daoist Figures:Zhang Zhan 张湛

Daoist Figures:Zhang Zhan 张湛

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Zhang Zhan, Eastern Jin philosopher, synthesized Wang Bi and Guo Xiang’s thought, positing "Ultimate Emptiness" as reality’s root. He viewed all beings as transient, returning to void. Advocating intuition over...

Daoist Figures:Zhang Zhan 张湛

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Zhang Zhan, Eastern Jin philosopher, synthesized Wang Bi and Guo Xiang’s thought, positing "Ultimate Emptiness" as reality’s root. He viewed all beings as transient, returning to void. Advocating intuition over...

Zhan Fangsheng

Zhan Fangsheng Jin Dynasty litterateur 湛方生

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Zhan Fangsheng, Eastern Jin writer and Daoist thinker, championed Zhuangzi’s ideals of spiritual freedom and unity with the Dao. He advocated transcending life, death, and worldly concerns through "forgetting self...

Zhan Fangsheng Jin Dynasty litterateur 湛方生

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Zhan Fangsheng, Eastern Jin writer and Daoist thinker, championed Zhuangzi’s ideals of spiritual freedom and unity with the Dao. He advocated transcending life, death, and worldly concerns through "forgetting self...

Daoist Figures: Yu Ai 庾敳

Daoist Figures: Yu Ai 庾敳

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Yu Ai (262–311), Western Jin Daoist philosopher, embraced Zhuangzi’s relativism and fatalism. He viewed all distinctions—life/death, honor/shame—as illusory, believed fate was divinely ordained from the beginning of time, and sought...

Daoist Figures: Yu Ai 庾敳

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Yu Ai (262–311), Western Jin Daoist philosopher, embraced Zhuangzi’s relativism and fatalism. He viewed all distinctions—life/death, honor/shame—as illusory, believed fate was divinely ordained from the beginning of time, and sought...

Daoist Figures:Yu Liang 庾亮

Daoist Figures:Yu Liang 庾亮

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Yu Liang (289–340), Eastern Jin statesman and scholar, blended Confucian governance with Daoist personal ideals. As a regent, he promoted education and moral rule, lamented the decline of Confucian learning,...

Daoist Figures:Yu Liang 庾亮

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Yu Liang (289–340), Eastern Jin statesman and scholar, blended Confucian governance with Daoist personal ideals. As a regent, he promoted education and moral rule, lamented the decline of Confucian learning,...

Yu Chan(庾阐): The Landscape Poet Who Found the Divine in Nature

Yu Chan(庾阐): The Landscape Poet Who Found the D...

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Yu Chan survived the sack of the Eastern Jin capital and turned to mountains. His fragments outline a complete spiritual journey: from trauma to withdrawal, from the discipline of the...

Yu Chan(庾阐): The Landscape Poet Who Found the D...

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Yu Chan survived the sack of the Eastern Jin capital and turned to mountains. His fragments outline a complete spiritual journey: from trauma to withdrawal, from the discipline of the...