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Taoteching With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years

Taoteching With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years

Lao Tzu
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Red Pine's translation of the most revered of Chinese texts corrects errors in previous interpretations, truly breathes new poetic life into the English version, and includes selected commentaries-judged by Chinese scholars to be essential to understanding the wisdom of Taoism. Pine incorporates the commentaries of emperors and prime ministers, Taoist monks and nuns, Buddhist priests, poets, scholars, and the country's most famous philosophers of the past 2,000 years. This marks the first time that non-Chinese speakers have been given access to such a range of wisdom explaining the deeper meaning of China's famous ancient classic. With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works both as a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.
Lao-tzu, founder of Taoism, is supposed to have written the "Taoteching" around 600 BC in the Chungnan Mountain region, where Red Pine interviewed contemporary hermits as described in his book "Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits." Bill Porter is also the translator of "The Zen Works of Stonehouse, " of Sung Po-jen's "Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom, " and of "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain."
Language
English
Pages
179
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mercury House
Release
October 01, 1996
ISBN
1562790854
ISBN 13
9781562790851

Taoteching With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years

Lao Tzu
4.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Red Pine's translation of the most revered of Chinese texts corrects errors in previous interpretations, truly breathes new poetic life into the English version, and includes selected commentaries-judged by Chinese scholars to be essential to understanding the wisdom of Taoism. Pine incorporates the commentaries of emperors and prime ministers, Taoist monks and nuns, Buddhist priests, poets, scholars, and the country's most famous philosophers of the past 2,000 years. This marks the first time that non-Chinese speakers have been given access to such a range of wisdom explaining the deeper meaning of China's famous ancient classic. With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works both as a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.
Lao-tzu, founder of Taoism, is supposed to have written the "Taoteching" around 600 BC in the Chungnan Mountain region, where Red Pine interviewed contemporary hermits as described in his book "Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits." Bill Porter is also the translator of "The Zen Works of Stonehouse, " of Sung Po-jen's "Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom, " and of "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain."
Language
English
Pages
179
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Mercury House
Release
October 01, 1996
ISBN
1562790854
ISBN 13
9781562790851

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