Author: Laozi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-05-24
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520242210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dao De Jing was composed in China between the late sixth and late fourth centuries BC.
Author: Hans-Georg Moeller
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006-05-02
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0231510101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For centuries, the ancient Chinese philosophical text the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) has fascinated and frustrated its readers. While it offers a wealth of rich philosophical insights concerning the cultivation of one's body and attaining one's proper place within nature and the cosmos, its teachings and structure can be enigmatic and obscure. Hans-Georg Moeller presents a clear and coherent description and analysis of this vaguely understood Chinese classic. 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. Moeller expounds on the core philosophical issues addressed in the Daodejing, clarifying such crucial concepts as Yin and Yang and Dao and De. He explains its teachings on a variety of subjects, including sexuality, ethics, desire, cosmology, human nature, the emotions, time, death, and the death penalty. The Daodejing also offers a distinctive ideal of social order and political leadership and presents a philosophy of war and peace. An illuminating exploration, The Daodejing is an interesting foil to the philosophical outlook of Western humanism and contains surprising parallels between its teachings and nontraditional contemporary philosophies.
Author: Rudolf G. Wagner
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2003-10-23
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 079145181X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presenting the commentary of the third-century sage Wang Bi, this book provides a Chinese way of reading the Daodejing, one which will surprise Western readers.
Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-03-19
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780791436004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.
Author: Laozi
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1603846387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philip J. Ivanhoe's richly annotated translation of this classic work is accompanied by his engaging interpretation and commentary, a lucid introduction, and a Language Appendix that compares eight classic translations of the opening passage of the work and invites the reader to consider the principles upon which each was rendered.
Author: Hans-Georg Moeller
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0812699378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This translation presents Daoism’s basic text in highly readable contemporary English. Incorporating the latest scholarship in the field (including the most recent discoveries of ancient manuscripts in the 1970s and '90s), the book explains Daodejing's often cryptic verses in a clear and concise way. The introduction interprets the Daodejing's poetic imagery in the context of ancient Chinese symbolism, and a brief philosophical analysis accompanies each of the 81 translated chapters of the Daodejing.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1611807247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching—from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin’s unique take on Taoist philosophy’s founding classic. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation and including extensive personal commentary throughout, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world. Jargon-free but still faithful to the poetic beauty of the original work, Le Guin’s unique translation is sure to be welcomed by longtime readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those discovering the text for the first time.
Author: Thomas Michael
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2015-09-21
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1438458975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the works roots in a tradition of physical cultivation. Thomas Michaels study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao. Michael explores the ways in which the text systematically anchored these techniques to a Dao-centered worldview. Including a new translation of the Daodejing, In the Shadows of the Dao opens new approaches to understanding the early history of one of the worlds great religious texts and great religious traditions. Michaels work provides a fresh and innovative methodological approach to a well-known and much studied text. Unlike the vast majority of previous studies, which situate the Daodejing in an ahistorical philosophical realm divorced from ritual and practice, Michaels analysis takes seriously the possibility that the text both contains and advocates for self-transformative practices. In addition, his translation, while not intended to be a stand-alone work, significantly contributes another important perspective. This excellent, groundbreaking book lays the foundation for a new round of vigorous debate and scholarly attention. Jeffrey Dippmann, coeditor of Riding the Wind with Liezi: New Perspectives on the Daoist Classic