Wen Bai Contrastive Cai Gen Tan (Wen Bai Contrastive)

Author: Hong Yingming
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: "The Vegetarian's Manual" (Cai Gen Tan) is a collection of aphorisms and teachings on Zen and worldly wisdom written by the Ming Dynasty author Hong Yingming in his later years. Each entry in the book is only a few dozen characters long, concise and powerful, with well-structured parallelism, vivid metaphors, and elegant prose. Many of the sayings have become famous maxims and proverbs, making them easy for people to remember and recite.