Laozi

Laozi

male
Daodejing, Founder of religions, zhou dynasty, Chinese Taoist, Taishang Laojun, Three Pure Ones…HundredSchoolsofThought
Laozi (also Lao Tse, Laotze, Lao Zi, and other variations) was a philosopher of ancient China and an important figure in Taoism (also called...

Zhuangzi

male
Logician, Chinese Taoist, HundredSchoolsofThought, Warring States Period, Pinyin, Wade-Giles…Culture of China, State of Song, King Xuan of Qi, King Hui of Wei, King Hui of Liang
Zhuangzi (Traditional: 莊子; Simplified: 庄子, Pinyin: Zhuāng Zǐ, Wade-Giles: Chuang Tzŭ, "lit". "Master Zhuang") was an influential Chinese philosopher...
Lie Yukou

Lie Yukou

male
Zi Yang, Tzu Yang, zhou dynasty, Ch'ien Lung, zheng, Song Dynasty…HundredSchoolsofThought
Lie Yukou is considered the author of the Daoist book "Liezi", which uses his honorific name Liezi (列子; Lièzĭ; Lieh-tzu; "Master Lie"). The second...
Mozi

Mozi

male
physicist, Taoism, Warring States Period, legalist, latinization, Western Han Dynasty…HundredSchoolsofThought, burning of books and burying of scholar
Mozi (Lat. as Micius, ca. 470 BCE-ca. 390 BCE), was a philosopher who lived in China during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring...
Zou Yan

Zou Yan

male
Chinese Taoist, Chinese spiritual writer, zhou dynasty, Mysterious, Warring States Period, yin-yang…Records of the Grand Historian, HundredSchoolsofThought, School of Yin-Yang, Place of birth unknown
Zou Yan (305 BC - 240 BC) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin-Yang (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought...