Tao te Ching
About this book
"Within ancient Chinese, a sole character possesses a broad, and sometimes contradictory, range of meanings. Moreover, the Tao Te Ching is rife with terms and expressions that have no exact counterpart in English. So while the Tao Te Ching ranks behind only the Bible as the most widely translated book in the world, it remains one of the least understood.".
"Jonathan Star's Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition helps remedy this situation. The distinction of this new edition is that it supplies readers with the first comprehensive verbatim translation, which can be used to explore the multiple meanings contained in the Chinese characters. This unique tool gives readers direct access to the text and a way to understand the different interpretations put forth by modern-day translators.
Perhaps most important, the verbatim translation gives each reader the ability to penetrate the inner meaning of the text and come up with his or her own personal interpretation."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
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- asian philosophy
- bg-juvenile prop - bg-juvy activity
- bilingual
- bl1900.l26 e5 1990
- body, mind & spirit
- body, mind & spirit / spiritualism
- china
- chinese classics
- chinese language materials
- chinese philosophy
- chinese taoist literature
- classic literature
- commentaries
- concordances
- dao de jing (laozi)
- early works to 1800
- fiction
- general
- laozi
- laozi, dao de jing
- military art and science
- mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques
- new age
- non-western philosophy
- other prose: classical, early & medieval
- ouvrages avant 1800
- peace
- philosophie
- philosophy
- philosophy, chinese
- philosophy, chinese--to 221 b.c
- reference
- religion
- religion - commentaries / reference
- religion / eastern
- religion - world religions
- religious literature
- sacred books
- spiritualism - general
- tao
- taoism
- taoïsme
- taoísmo
- taoism philosophy
- taoism--sacred books
- taoismus
- taoist literature
- taoist philosophy
- translations into russian