The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Taoist Figures:Huang Kan 皇侃

Taoist Figures:Huang Kan 皇侃

paulpeng

Huang Kan (488–545), a Liang dynasty Confucian scholar, integrated Daoist and Buddhist thought into classical interpretation. His Analects Commentary promotes "returning to the root, abandoning words," "natural spontaneity," and aligns...

Taoist Figures:Huang Kan 皇侃

paulpeng

Huang Kan (488–545), a Liang dynasty Confucian scholar, integrated Daoist and Buddhist thought into classical interpretation. His Analects Commentary promotes "returning to the root, abandoning words," "natural spontaneity," and aligns...

Fu Liang(傅亮): The Taoist Who Knew But Couldn’t Stop

Fu Liang(傅亮): The Taoist Who Knew But Couldn’t ...

paulpeng

Fu Liang wrote the definitive Taoist treatise on caution, warning that power attracts disaster and only retreat can save you. Then he stayed in the palace, too afraid to leave,...

Fu Liang(傅亮): The Taoist Who Knew But Couldn’t ...

paulpeng

Fu Liang wrote the definitive Taoist treatise on caution, warning that power attracts disaster and only retreat can save you. Then he stayed in the palace, too afraid to leave,...

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...

paulpeng

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...

paulpeng

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

paulpeng

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

paulpeng

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

paulpeng

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

paulpeng

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

paulpeng

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

paulpeng

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...