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Lao-tzu's Taoteching : Paperback : Copper Canyon Press,U.S. : 9781556592904 : 1556592906 : 17 Dec 2009 : Revised and re-translated, Red Pine's best-selling and authoritative translation of Taoteching is now--vitally--available once again.Read More

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    Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) offers a new perspective on the Chinese classic Taoteching. A competent translator and interpreter of Chinese religion, he renders his work with an eye for detail and a spiritualism cultivated during years of Zen monastery living. It's odd that many read translations of Chinese classics as bare-bones texts, whereas no Chinese would tackle such obscurity in the absence of a helping hand from previous pundits. Fortunately, it is no longer necessary to rely on mystical insight in order to understand the Taoteching. Instead, we can look to the 12 or so commentators that Red Pine resurrects from Chinese history. With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.

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    “A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.”â??Library Journal

    “With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.”â??Publishers Weekly

    “Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English.”â??Victor Mair, professor of Chinese studies, University of Pennsylvania

    Lao-tzu’s Taoteching is an essential volume of world literature, and Red Pine’s nuanced and authoritative English translationâ??reissued and published with the Chinese text en faceâ??is one of the best-selling versions. What sets this volume apart from other translations are its commentaries by scores of Taoist scholars, poets, monks, recluses, adepts, and emperors spanning more than two thousand years. “I envisioned this book,” Red Pine notes in his introduction, “as a discussion between Lao-tzu and a group of people who have thought deeply about his text.”

    Sages have no mind of their own
    their mind is the mind of the people
    to the good they are good
    to the bad they are good
    until they become good
    to the true they are true
    to the false they are true
    until they become true . . .

    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 the Taoteching.

    Red Pine is one of the world’s foremost translators of Chinese literary and religious texts.

  • 1556592906
  • 9781556592904
  • Lao Tzu
  • 1 September 2009
  • Copper Canyon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 200
  • 3 Blg Rei
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