Chung-yuan Chang was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Well-known as a leading scholar on Daoist history and philosophy, he was awarded the University of Hawaii's Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 1977. He died in 1988, aged 84, and is the author of Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism and Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry, ...