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Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu; Stephen Addiss; Stanley Lombardo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1993; US$ 8.95This 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. "This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and as concisely poetic as the original. It... more...
Tao of the Westby J.J. Clarke
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95In this book J.J Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas and practices have been assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. A fascinating introduction to Taoism and the history of the West's encounter with it. more...
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhismby Youru Wang
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 180.00Whilst focusing on language use, the study reveals some important truths about Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism and challenges many conventional understandings of them. more...
Daoism in Historyby Benjamin Penny
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 170.00Daoism in History brings together essays by some of the leading scholars from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, France, Italy and the US, thus presenting new and important research in the field. more...
Taoismby Norman J. Giradot; Russell Kirkland
Routledge 2004; US$ 36.95This concise and reliable introduction to Taoism (also known as Daoism) brings a fresh dimension to a tradition that has found a natural place in Western societies. more...
Encyclopedia of Taoismby Fabrizio Pregadio
Routledge 2005; US$ 315.00This encyclopedia provides an overview of Taoist history, thought, and religion with 1750 cross-referenced entries and bibliographical data. No other work of this kind on Taoism is available in a western language. more...
To Live As Long As Heaven and Earthby Robert Ford Campany; Hong Ge
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. more...
Dao De Jingby Laozi; Moss Roberts
University of California Press 2001; US$ 24.95Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our own times. This new translation, both revelatory and authentic, captures much of the beauty and nuance of the original work. In an extensive and accessible commentary to his translation, Moss Roberts reveals new depths of Dao De Jing. This edition is distinguished by the literary quality of the translation, its new renderings for a number of the stanzas, and by Roberts's knowledgeable contextualizations. Utilizing recently discovered manuscripts... more...
The Daoist Monastic Manualby Livia Kohn
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 109.99This title offers a complete annotated translation of the 'Fengdao Keije', accompanied by three introductory chapters that outline the development of Daoist organisations, discuss the date and compilation of the work, and introduce key issues of terminology and world view. more...