Zhuangzi

/ ˈʒwæŋˈziː /

noun

1. Zhuangzi?369 bc286 bcMChinesePHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?369–286 bc , Chinese philosopher, who greatly influenced Chinese religion through the book of Taoist philosophy that bears his name

Example Sentences

Zhuangzi famously wondered whether he was a philosopher who sometimes dreamed of being a butterfly or a butterfly who became a philosopher when it slept.

From Washington Post

The road-building scenes interrupt a series of stories: a dream from the work of the writer Natsume Soseki; a traditional Noh play; the butterfly dream from the text Zhuangzi.

From New York Times

This is particularly evident in Taoism, and is vividly illustrated by the surprising cheerfulness of the 4th century BC Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi when everyone thought he should have been mourning for his wife.

From The Guardian

“When you are a frog at the bottom of the well, the world is both big and small,” he likes to say, referring to a famous fable by Zhuangzi, the Aesop of ancient China, in which a frog, certain that nowhere can be as good as the environment he knows, is astonished when a turtle tells him about the sea.

From The New Yorker

Puett exposes them to the writings of Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi and Xunzi, among others, but he also promises that the course will do more than just fulfil Harvard’s required ethical reasoning module.

From The Guardian