The World Inside a Pillow

"The World Inside a Pillow" (Chinese Simplified: 枕中记) is a traditional Chinese story by Shen Jiji of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907).[1] The story involves a Daoist monk and is interpreted through the Daoist and Buddhist belief of life as an illusion and the moral of not striving too much in one's life.[2]

  1. ^ Luo, Yuming (1951). A Concise History of Chinese Literature. The Netherlands: Brill.
  2. ^ Nienhauser, William (1986). The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Bloomingdale, Indiana: Indiana University Press.