Tao Te Ching

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Hackett Publishing, Oct 15, 1993 - Philosophy - 128 pages

This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters and a glossary commenting on the pronunciation and meaning of each Chinese character displayed. This greatly enhances the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the different ways it can be translated into English.

 

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Glossary of Chinese Words
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Captions for Those Ink Paintings Based on Calligraphy
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Back Cover
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Copyright

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Lao Tzu
Limited preview - 2007
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Lao Tzu
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Common terms and phrases

ancient attaining benevolence bones bright called original can’t ch’i Ch’u China Chinese history Chou ruler Chuang comes from emptiness compassion Confucians Confucius contend daily renewal dark death desire dwell early Chinese embrace engenders eternal Tao female followed TAO gain govern harm hearing the TAO Heaven and Earth Heaven’s TAO hsiang hsin human jade kings known Legalists Lo-yang lose master Mawangdui means moral move muddy water mysterious need to act Neolithic nese nobles non-action original Chinese people’s philosopher pronounced Pronunciation reader rejects Return righteousness rituals root Sage scholar hearing seems Shang Shang dynasty Shih wei hsüan soft and weak Son of Heaven STANLEY LOMBARDO STEPHEN ADDISS stiff and strong straw dogs T’ien chih tao T’ien hsia t’un Tao Te Ching tao’s Taoist terse thousand things trust tz’u uncarved Understanding the ordinary valley warfare words Wu wei Yellow River

About the author (1993)

Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.

Bibliographic information

TitleTao Te Ching
Hackett Classics
AuthorLao-Tzu
Translated byStephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo
ContributorBurton Watson
PublisherHackett Publishing, 1993
ISBN1603846352, 9781603846356
Length128 pages
Subjects › 

Philosophy / Eastern
  
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