Dao House... Zhuangzi Translations

Scroll down past the Daodejing verses for five selections illustrating "the interconnection of religion and ecology in the Daoist tradition." From Harvard's Forum on Religion and Ecology.

The Woman Crookback and The Way of the Sage [Watson]

www.earlywomenmasters.net/tao/chuang_tzu.html

Sarah L. Whitworth's (artist, art historian) arrangement of Watson's translation makes for an attractive presentation. Includes a footnote on the Queen Mother of the West.

Musings of a Chinese Mystic [Giles, 10 chapters]

www.sacred-texts.com/tao/mcm/mcm02.htm

This 1909 version includes an introduction by Lionel Giles (1875-1958), and translations by his father Herbert A. Giles (1845-1935), both notable sinologists.

Neither Great nor Small [Giles]

www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/truth/tr-chuang.htm

Part of Herbert A. Giles's translation of Chapter 17, Autumn Floods. From Sunrise magazine, Theosophical University Press.

Independence [Giles]

www.ksu.edu/english/baker/english320/Chuang_Tzu-Independence.htm

Zhuangzi story translated by Herbert A. Giles, with some thoughtful questions by Lyman A. Baker for his English class at Kansas State University. Includes a Study Guide.

Chuang Tzu [Giles]

www.humanistictexts.org/chuang.htm

Excerpts from the Herbert A. Giles translation, selected and adapted by Rex Pay. Organized into topics such as Knowledge, Generation by Opposites, and The Measure of Man.

Chuang Tzu on Peace and Repose [Giles]

www.wisdomportal.com/Peace/Peace-ChuangTzu.html

Two excerpts from Giles's version, on Peter Y. Chou's (Mountain View, CA) Wisdom Portal site.

Chuangtse, Mystic and Humorist [Lin]

www.triton.edu/depts/uc/files/chuangts.html

Eleven chapters from Lin Yutang's version, plus his Introduction.

Happy Wanderings [Feng]

www.tigerclaws.com/tao/happy.htm

Chapter 1, translated by Gia-Fu Feng, from Scott Stricklin's site. Portion of Chapter 2, The Equality of All Things, here.

The Happy Excursion, Part A [Chong]

http://gator.dt.uh.edu/~chong/CP/xiaoya.htm

Line by line translation of Chapter 1, by Lu-sheng Chong (Director, Chinese Cultural Learning Center, Seattle), includes Chinese characters and pinyin, plus brief commentary. Subsequent pages: Part B, Part C, Part D. See also Chong's translation of Chapter 3: Part A and Part B.

Selection from The Zhuangzi [Ebrey]

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts.chuangtz.html

Nine stories translated by Patricia Ebrey, on Paul Halsall's Brooklyn College site.

Chapter One: Free and Easy Wandering [Moran]

www.wfu.edu/~moran/zhexuejialu/Zhuang_Zi_chap_1.html

Patrick Edwin Moran (Wake Forest University) offers his own translation of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 for his class. See also his alternate translation of Chapter 2, with commentary, here.

The sorting which evens things out [Graham]

www.uboeschenstein.ch/texte/Dao/zhuangzi2-graham-notes.htm

Angus C. Graham's translation of the second chapter, with his superb comments and notes. Page from the website of Urs Boeschenstein (School for Applied Linguistics, Zurich).

In the Social World [Hansen]

www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/zhuangzi/tianxia1.htm

Being Zhuangzi's Chapter 33, as translated by Chad Hansen.

Chuang Tzu's Butterfly [Palmer and Breuilly]

www.srds.co.uk/begin/chuang1.htm

...and other stories, translated by Martin Palmer and Elizabeth Breuilly. From the Let It Begin With Me site of Seafield Research and Development Services.

On the Water, Thinking [Chan]

www.hevanet.com/jkl/castle/travels/fish.html

From Jeff Lassahn's site, Zhuangzi's happy fish story. Translated by, and with comments from, Wing-tsit Chan.

Lessons of Chuang Tzu [Lin/Kinnes]

http://oaks.nvg.org/sa3ra11.html

Tormod Kinnes presents numerous stories from Lin Yutang's translation, "modernized" and with added comments.

Zhuangzi [selections; Pregadio]

www.stanford.edu/~pregadio/taoism/texts_zhuangzi.html

Five selections translated by Fabrizio Pregadio (Stanford, Religious Studies).

I Dreamt I Was a Butterfly, by Zhuangzi [Bruya]

www.chinapage.com/story/butterfly.html

Bryan Bruya's translation of the butterfly story, from the story page on Pei Minglong's China the Beautiful site, which also includes Bruya's translation of Zhuangzi's These Fish are Happy, I-kuan Tao's translation of Carving up an Ox, Lin Yutang's version of How Can I Use Big Gourds?, and Pei Minglong's own renditions of Duke and the Wheelwright and Three Bananas in the Morning.

Chuang Tzu [Derek Lin]

www.truetao.org/chuang

Lin's retellings of seven (top) and translations of six (bottom) Zhuangzi stories.

Chuang Tzu: "The Dexterous Butcher" (Two Translations)

www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/chuang-tzu.htm

The Bureau of Public Secrets site has the Cook Ting story, as translated by Burton Watson and by Sam Hamill and J. P. Seaton.

Quotations from Chuang Tzu, by Thomas Merton

www.terebess.hu/english/merton.html

Excerpts from The Way of Chuang Tzu, Merton's version of Zhuangzi, arranged into categories, with references.

The Useless Tree [Merton]

www.conures.net/stories/tree.shtml

One more from Merton, on Linda's Inspiration Pointe site.

Three Friends by Chuang Tzu [Merton/Thursby]

www.vl-site.org/taoism/friend.html

Adapted from Thomas Merton's version by Gene R. Thursby (University of Florida).

Chwang Tzu [Theosophical Society]

www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ancientlandmarks/ChwangTzu.html

Zhuangzi quotations from the Ancient Landmarks series of the Theosophical Society, published in 1927. Sections on Deity and Nature, Man's knowledge, and Adepts.

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