François Cheng
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.
Books By François Cheng
Five Meditations on Death
By François Cheng
Translated By Jody Gladding
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These five meditations on death from poet-philosopher François Cheng invite us to contemplate life in the light of our own death. Our death is an integral part of our great adventure in becoming. For if birth is a seed, then death is the fruit--the final sacred product of a life well lived.