Tao Te Ching
The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao
$46.24
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2008
Summary
Addiss and Lombardo’s rendering of the TAO TE CHING gets you right down into the primary source, and from there you’re free to wander where you will.
With this edition of the TAO TE CHING, an unlikely team of a Japanese art expert and a Greek translator pull off a uniquely powerful version of the text. If one thing marks the language of the original TAO TE CHING, it is linguistic spareness. Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo are the first to succeed in duplicating the language in Eng…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590305461 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590305469 |
| Author: | Lao Tzu, Stanley Lombardo, Stephen Addiss, Burton Watson |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 134mm x 18mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and is as concisely poetic as the original. Of the many translations I have read in English, this is unquestionably the best.”—Gary Snyder “This is by far the best translation on the market today.”—Livia Kohn, Professor of Religion, Boston University
About The Author
Lao Tzu
Thomas Cleary holds a Ph.D in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the translator of more than fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.
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