Definition of Chuang-tzu

1. Noun. 4th-century Chinese philosopher on whose teachings Lao-tse based Taoism.

Generic synonyms: Mystic, Religious Mystic

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Chuang-tzu (current term)
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Literary usage of Chuang-tzu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Russo-Japanese War: Reports from British Officers Attached to the by Great Britain War Office. General Staff, Great Britain War Office (1908)
"With the two battalions of the 5th Regiment and the guns, Colonel Tsugawa left Keng-chuang-tzu at 7.30 am, next day intending to proceed thr. ..."

2. Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt (1919)
"(In 'my references La. stands for Lao-tzu, Li. for Lieh-tzu, Ch. for Chuang-tzu. The first number gives the chapter; the second number the page in ..."

3. Deliverance: The Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World by Henry Osborn Taylor (1915)
""'Begone I' cried Chuang Tzu. 'I too will wag my tail in the mud. ... This is how Chuang Tzu has Lao Tzu put it, when asked how men's hearts are to be kept ..."

4. Gems of Chinese Literature by Herbert Allen Giles (1884)
"When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples expressed a wish to give him a ... But Chuang Tzu said, " With Heaven and Earth for my coffin and shell; ..."

5. Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative by South Place Ethical Society (London, England) (1892)
"Chuang-tzu was nothing if not paradoxical, and one of his favourite theories ... Chuang-tzu replied that it was to its very uselessness that the tree owed ..."

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