Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom From Ming China On Life And Living: Caigentan By Hong Zicheng

Book Summary


Written 400 years ago, by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, "The Caigentan or "Vegetable Roots has been a fundamental literary guide for hundreds of years, outlining Asian philosophy. This edition, translated by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok, contains 360 observations of life: its exaggerations, absurdities, grotesqueries, and falsities. Terse, humorous, witty, and timely, these Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist epigrams provide fundamental principles of life. Though often strict, puritan, and tough to live by, they provide the foundation for the art of living. Pocket-sized and agreeing seamlessly with the impulses of all ages, this discourse is read as a set of philosophical notions on personal development for all types.

Book Details


Book Name Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom From Ming China On Life And Living: Caigentan By Hong Zicheng
Author Hong Zicheng, Robert Aitken, Daniel W. Y. Kwok
Publisher Shoemaker & Hoard (Jan 2006)
ISBN 9781593760915
Pages 224
Language English
Price 1761
 
 

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