Tao Te Ching: With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years - Softcover

Lao Zi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562790854 ISBN 13: 9781562790851

Publisher: Mercury House, 1996

Synopsis

Award-winning translator Red Pine, whose previous books from Mercury House include Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits and his translation of Sung Po-jen's Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom, renders the classic Chinese text into exquisite English in a breakthrough translation that includes for the first time essential commentaries, considered by Chinese scholars to be vital to understanding the wisdom of Taoism.

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Review:

"With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation." --Publishers Weekly "A refreshing new translation Here, one feels, are the bare bones, shining brightlyHighly recommended."--Library Journal "Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English."--Victor Mair, Chinese scholar, U. Penn

About the Author:

Red Pine (aka Bill Porter) is one of the world's leading translators of Chinese literary and religious texts. After dropping out of a Columbia University Ph.D. program, Red Pine moved to a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan; he eventually became a popular radio journalist in Hong Kong, famous for his descriptions of traveling around mainland China. Lao-tzu (ca. 600 BCE) was a Chinese sage who Confucius called "a dragon among men." He served as Keeper of the Royal Archives and authored of one of the world's most cherished spiritual and poetic texts, the Tao Te Ching.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mercury House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1562790854
• ISBN 13: 9781562790851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180