鬼谷子 / Guiguzi

鬼谷子 / Guiguzi appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》16丨孙膑庞涓恩怨纠葛 桂陵之战 as the teacher under whom 孙膑 and 庞涓 study military methods. The source does not develop a broad biography; it uses Guiguzi to explain the shared training background that makes Pang Juan’s later fear and betrayal more pointed.

The page is deliberately source-scoped. In this wiki branch, Guiguzi matters because his teaching setting links two divergent outcomes: Pang Juan converts talent anxiety into court violence, while Sun Bin later converts the same strategic learning into resource reallocation and indirect military pressure.

Connections

• 孙膑 and 庞涓 - students named by the source.
• 战国时期 - historical setting for the strategist tradition in the episode.
• Tian Ji Horse Racing / 田忌赛马 and Encircling Wei to Rescue Zhao / 围魏救赵 - later Sun Bin strategy branch.
• 魏国 and 齐国 - states in which the students’ rivalry becomes political.