The full text of the Taoist classic The DaodeJing set up as a journal with room for reflections in the body of the text.
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry.
He explores the recurring images and ideas that shape the work and offers a variety of useful approaches to understanding and appreciating this canonical text.
The Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) or Laozi (Lao Tzu), is the most fundamental scripture of Daoism and a classic of world literature.
By faithfully following the structure of the original, Roberts provides non-Chinese readers an opportunity to experience the beauty of form of this canonical work.”—Philosophy East & West “Roberts’s renditions are often refreshing; ...
The Language Appendix, unique to this edition, offers eight translations of the opening passage by well-known and influential scholars and explains, line-by-line, how each might have reached his particular interpretation.
The Daodejing encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, a philosophy and religion whose dominant image is the Way, a life-giving stream that enables individuals to achieve harmony and a more profound level of understanding.
Contains the same material as the 1961 printing published by St. John's University Press with the exception that the Chinese version of the text has been removed.
The original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation that presents it as a guide to living a better, kinder, gentler life The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or 'Book of the Way', is the ...
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Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the "Dao de jing" set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by...