Daodejing
$26.77
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2008
Summary
‘Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.’
The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modelled on the great Silve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199208555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199208557 |
| Author: | Laozi, Benjamin Penny, Edmund Ryden |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 169g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
Laozi
Edmund Ryden teaches at Fujen University in Taiwan, mostly in Chinese, but he has also taught translation in the graduate schools of religious studies and of translation. He was the first director of the John Paul II Peace Institute at Fujen University and edited a series of conference papers in the field of human rights. He also teaches human rights at Soochow University, Taiwan. He is the translator of Zhang Dai-nian’s Key Concepts of Chinese Philosophy (Yale, 2002).
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