Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred
Preface by Jean Mouttapa
First Meditation
Second Meditation
Third Meditation
Fourth Meditation
Fifth Meditation
François Cheng was born in 1929 in Shangdong Province, China. He moved to France in 1949 and was elected to the Académie Française in 2002. He is a translator, calligrapher, and essayist, best known for his essays on Chinese art and poetry, as well as a renowned poet. He is the author of several novels and The Way of Beauty, a companion volume to Five Meditations on Death.