中国早期思想家的著作影响了中国文化和社会的方方面面，从教育到艺术，从政治到战争到日常礼节。广受欢迎的漫画家蔡志忠先生一直致力于用他独特而富有吸引力的画风将这些古代经典著儿的智慧带入生活。这一中国传统思想系列漫画映射出历史上伟大的思想家们的光辉；包括：
·孔子，和谐生活的智慧
·老子，道家自然生活的智慧
·庄子，道家自由与自然的智慧
·孙子，不战而胜的智慧
·禅师，生活在瞬间的智慧
蔡志忠先生最早是因为他获奖的多部动画电影和每日连载漫画引起大众的关注的。在长期的自学之后，蔡志忠先生将创作方向转移到经典著作上。作品广受评论家的好评并快速成为畅销书。蔡先生的书已被美国知名出版社如,Princeton University Press和Knopf出版。
Brian Bruya是此系列书美国版的译者，拥有夏威夷大学比较哲学的博士的学位。他是中国早期哲学研究领域的专家和翻译，同时还是一个关于中国哲学研究的网站“书海文苑”的总编辑。

What is Zen?
Enlightenment of the Wave
A Cup of Zen
The Outcome of Enlightenment
The Staff and Shout of the Venerable Ones Zen Stories
Passing on the Mind
Seize the Moment
Kasyapa and the Flagpole
Carrying a Woman across a River
The Gates of Heaven.
The Lamebrain official
If I Don‘t Go to Hell, Who Will?
Black Bamboo, Red Bamboo
The Order of Life and Death
Vow of Silence
Everything Is Empty
The Buddha Is in the Home
Pointing at the Moon
The Lost Student
Enlightenment of the Thief
Can‘t Say It
The Mute and the Parrot
Zen in a Cup
Disregarding Titles
Self and Other
Words Exceeding Actions
Sound of the Hollow
Fate Is in Your Own Hands
The Faster the Slower
The General‘ s Antique
Giving and Receiving
One Who Understands the Music
A Blind Man Carrying a Lantern
Something Valuable
A Blade of Grass, a Drop of Dew
For No Reason
Past, Present, Future
The Great Wave
Because I‘m Here
Matter is Empty
The Weeping Lady
Mind Like a Mirror
Mountain Paths Don‘t Change
Torn
Where Do We Go after Death?
The Swordless Sword
with a Slight Fanning, the Fire Returns
The Spider and the Monk
Rich and Poor
Do Not Grasp Either Extreme
Not Changing to Meet the Changes
Laughing with Heaven and Earth
Zen Can‘t Be Spoken
Clouds in the Blue Sky, Water in a Bottle
Snowflakes Fall Where They Should
Zhaozhou‘s Stone Bridge
Go Wash Your Bowl
What is Self-cultivation?
A Cypress Tree Becomes the Buddha
The Many Return to One
What is Zhaozhou?
Zhaozhou Asks the Way to Zhaozhou
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蔡志忠，台湾彰化人。一九四八年二月出生，十五岁开始从事漫画创作，当兵退伍后进入光启社从事电视美术指导工作。一九七六年成立龙卡通公司，拍摄《老夫子》、《乌龙院》等长篇动画电影，曾获一九八一年金马奖最佳卡通片奖。一九八三年开始画四格漫画《大醉侠》、《光头神探》和中国古籍经典漫画《庄子说》、《老子说》等，迄今已达一百多部；作品在三十一个国家和地区出版，总销量逾三千万册。目前正从事佛学、神学的修习和物理学等科学的研究。