Written 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomplished scholar and philosopher Hong Zicheng retired from public Life and settled down to write an informal compilation of his thoughts on the essence of life, human nature, and heaven and earth.
While it has been translated into many languages, this comprehensive version will immediately become the standard edition for generations of English readers to come..
It contains 360 observations that lead us through paths as complex, absurd, and grotesque as Life itself. above all, timely, this book offers a provocative and personal mix of Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian understanding.
Terse, humorous, witty, and.
Entitled Caigentan (Vegetable Roots Discourse), this book has been studied and cherished for four hundred years.
Though he wrote other books as well, only this one has survived--thanks largely to its continuous popularity, first in China and later in Japan and Korea.
Written 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomplished scholar and philosopher Hong Zicheng retired from public Life and settled down to write an informal compilation of his thoughts on the essence of life, human nature, and heaven and earth
