ability to change (可移), 205, 211

ability to control one’s destiny, 236

achievement, xxii, 63, 78, 280

adaptation, xi, 8, 42, 85, 98, 150, 173, 191, 278

age, ix, xvi, xxi, 21, 24, 29, 51, 57–58, 63, 74, 80, 87, 107, 113, 118, 127, 130, 187, 189–191, 243, 255, 257, 259, 281

old age, 14

young, 223

aggressiveness, 155, 234

ambition, 47, 120

Analects. See Lunyu

anger, 54, 135, 171, 182, 226, 228, 233, 259

arrogance, 85

autobiographies. See biographies

autonomy, vii–viii, xi, xiii, xv–xvi, xxii, xxiv, 1–7, 9, 15, 19, 24, 27–33, 36, 44–48, 51, 55–56, 62–64, 66, 68, 73, 75, 77–78, 83, 85, 88, 95, 97–98, 100, 102, 104, 108, 111, 131, 140, 142, 148, 150–151, 154–155, 159, 161, 163–164, 172–173, 178, 181, 183, 187–191, 199, 205, 209, 231, 235, 243, 257, 267, 270, 273–276, 278

tension for individual autonomy, xiv

balancing the circumstances, 231

quan (權), 198, 218

beauty, 35, 43, 108, 115, 117, 125, 136, 222–223

benevolence or humaneness (ren 仁), 46, 48, 64–65, 80, 96–98, 102, 171, 174–175, 187, 191, 207, 216, 242, 255–256, 270, 280

benran zhi xing (本然之性), 201

benxing (本性), 201

bianhua qizhi (變化氣質), 202

biographies, 217, 222–223, 252, 255

autobiographies, xiii, 113, 210, 219, 256

Biographies of Exemplary Women. See Lienü zhuan

body-person, xi, 30–31, 103

Buddhism, xvii, xix, 5, 15–18, 20, 25–26, 36, 43–46, 49, 59, 62, 73, 79, 83, 88, 101, 104–105, 114, 126, 131, 142, 154, 165, 171, 174, 176, 190, 196, 227, 231–233, 235–236, 238, 249, 260, 263–264, 273

buren (不忍), 98, 273, 279

cai (才 ability), 115, 118, 135, 245

Cai Yizhong (蔡毅中), 17–18, 24

Cangshu (藏書 A Book to Hide), 18, 25, 127, 133, 164–165, 248

cause-effect, 170, 172–173, 232, 235, 263

Chan Master Yu Has a Voluptuous Dream (Yu chanshi Cuixiang yi meng 玉禪師翠鄕一夢), 119