Wang Bi

A philosophical prodigy dead at twenty-three, whose commentaries on the Daodejing and the Yijing became the standard by which both were read for a thousand years. He read the Way through wu — nothingness, non-being — as the ground of all being.

The greatest interpreter of the two core texts; the lens most later readers actually looked through, and the clearest bridge to the Ayin/nothingness rhyme.