Author : Laozi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Taoism
ISBN : 9780231105811
The most famous and influential Taoist text, the Tao-te Ching is traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, supposedly a contemporary of Confucius (551-471 B.C).
Author : Lao Tzu
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0757050573
A fundamental book of the Taoist, the Tao Te Ching is regarded as a revelation in its own right. It provides a wealth of wisdom and insights for those seeking a better understanding of themselves. Over time, many changes have been made to the original Chinese text. Researcher Patrick M. Byrne has produced a translation that is accurate and easy to understand, while capturing the pattern and harmony of the original.
Author : Laozi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
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Author : Laozi
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : 1590307445
"Ursula K. Le Guin, a student of the Tao Te Ching for more than fifty years, offers her own thoughtful rendering of the Taoist scripture. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with the scholar J. P. Seaton to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the original Chinese. This rendition reveals the Tao Te Ching's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, illustrating better than ever before why it has been so loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes along with two audio CDs of the text read by the author, with original music composed and performed by Todd Barton."--Publisher's website.
Author : Lao Tzu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781530956715
One of the most integral texts in Taoism, the Tao Te Ching is a foundational scripture in Eastern Philosophy. A source of divine inspiration for many, the Tao Te Ching teaches eternal wisdom to those seeking the way.
Author : Laozi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191607258
'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.' The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modelled on the great Silver River or Milky Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It enables the individual, and society as a whole, to harmonize the disparate demands of daily life and achieve a more profound level of understanding. This new translation draws on the latest archaeological finds and brings out the word play and poetry of the original. Simple commentary accompanies the text, and the introduction provides further historical and interpretative context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : RODNEY A. COOPER
Publisher : Author House
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1481764705
This insightful English version of the Tao Te Ching is written in gender-neutral language, like the Chinese original, with facing-page commentary for casual or scholarly reading.
Author : Sarah Allan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791433850
Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought. This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the "way", de, "virtue" or "potency", xin, the "mind/heart", xing "nature", and qi, "vital energy". Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and was the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy. "I find this book unique among recent efforts to identify and explain essential features of early Chinese thought because of its emphasis on imagery and metaphor". -- Christian Jochim, San Jose State University
Author : Lao Tzu
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789178940523
Tao Te Ching is the 2,500 years old source to Taoism, written by the legendary Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu. In 81 short chapters, he presented the world according to Tao, the Way, and how mankind should adapt to it. The book has become one of the foremost world classics of wisdom - maybe even more relevant today, than it was to Lao Tzu's contemporaries. This translation of the text focuses on the clarity and simplicity by which Lao Tzu expresses his fascinating cosmology and profound ethics. Except for a short foreword by the translator, Lao Tzu's text is uncommented in this edition, allowing it to speak for itself. Stefan Stenudd has also published an edition with extensive comments and explanations: Tao Te Ching. The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained.
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231514050
Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the I Ching has been taken up by millions of English-language speakers in the nineteenth century. The first translation ever to appear in English that includes one of the major Chinese philosophical commentaries, the Columbia I Ching presents the classic book of changes for the world today. Richard Lynn's introduction to this new translation explains the organization of The Classic of Changes through the history of its various parts, and describes how the text was and still is used as a manual of divination with both the stalk and coin methods. For the fortune-telling novice, he provides a chart of trigrams and hexagrams; an index of terms, names, and concepts; and a glossary and bibliography. Lynn presents for the first time in English the fascinating commentary on the I Ching written by Wang Bi (226-249), who was the main interpreter of the work for some seven hundred years. Wang Bi interpreted the I Ching as a book of moral and political wisdom, arguing that the text should not be read literally, but rather as an expression of abstract ideas. Lynn places Wang Bi's commentary in historical context.
