Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) API - urantia.dev

The API serves Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (Herbert A. Giles, 1889) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. The writings of the Taoist teacher Zhuangzi. It has 2,145 passages in 33 chapters. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# Zhuangzi 2.5
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/chuang-tzu/2.5
# A whole chapter
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/chuang-tzu/2

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "chuang-tzu",
      "title": "Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer",
      "translator": "Herbert A. Giles",
      "year": 1889
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "Zhuangzi 2.5",
        "division": 2,
        "text": "\"The breath of the universe,\" continued Tzŭ Ch'i, \"is called wind. At times, it is inactive. But when active, every aperture resounds to the blast. Have you never listened to its growing roar?"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug chuang-tzu, the id chuang-tzu-giles-1889, and the prefix zhuangzi all name this text.

References

Chapter and paragraph, Zhuangzi 2.5. The paragraph numbers are ours. GET /scriptures/chuang-tzu lists every chapter with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"chuang-tzu","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=chuang-tzu'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/chuang-tzu/2.5/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer, translated by Herbert A. Giles (1889)
Source: www.gutenberg.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: Chapter and paragraph (Zhuangzi 2.5): Giles’s paragraphs have no numbers, so they are numbered in order. His notes and remarks are not here.