Classical Taoist philosophy and mysticism

Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)

369 BCE – 286 BCE

Zhuang Zhou, known as Zhuangzi, was a Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period and the most significant early interpreter of Daoism. His eponymous text, the Zhuangzi, is a foundational scripture of Taoism celebrated for its use of paradox, dream imagery, and mystical transformation narratives — particularly the famous butterfly dream — to dissolve fixed distinctions between self, other, life, and death.