Caigentan

Caigentan (, «Grønnsaksrotdiskurs») er en tekst fra 1590 skrevet av den kinesiske filosof og mandarin Hong Zicheng 洪自誠. Denne kompilasjonen av aforismer tar med elementer fra konfucianismen, daoismen og kinesisk buddhisme).

Litteratur
Aitken, Robert and Kwok, D.W.Y. 2006. Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living: Caigentan by Hong Zicheng. Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 1-59376-091-4.
Chao Tze-Chiang. 1959. A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots". Peter Pauper Press.
Cleary, Thomas. 1990. Back to Beginnings: Reflections on the Tao by Huanchu Daoren. Shambhala.
Goodrich, L. Arrington and Fang Chaoying. 1976.  Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368–1644. Columbia University Press.
Isobe Yaichiro. 1926. Musings of a Chinese Vegetarian. Yuhodo.
Kitao, Yoshitaka. 2007. The SBI Group Vision and Strategy. John Wiley and Sons.
Knoblock, John, tr. 1994. Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works/Books 17-32. Stanford University Press.
Lee Siu-Leung 李兆良 and Fu Yiyao 傅益瑶. 2002. 绘画菜根谭 Zen of Vegetable Roots in Chinese Painting. Shanghai Guji.
Rohsenow, John Snowden. 2002. ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs. University of Hawai'i Press.
Vos, Frits. 1993. "The Ts'ai-ken T'an in Japan," in Conflict and Accommodation in Early Modern East Asia, ed. by Leonard Blussé and Harriet Thelma, 169-188.
White, Paul, tr. 2000. Tending the Roots of Wisdom. New World Press.
Wilson, William Scott, trans. 1985. The Roots of Wisdom Saikontan by Hung Ying-ming. Kodansha International.

Eksterne lenker
 "Unearthing proverbs, essential to life but hard to swallow", Mariko Kato, Japan Times
 菜根譚, Caigentan 
 菜根譚(上), Caigentan (Book 1)
 菜根譚(下), Caigentan (Book 2) 
 Vegetable Root Discourse Blog, Caigentan

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