- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Penguin UK (Oct 21 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140190600
- ISBN-13: 978-0140190601
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 132 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,205,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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No other work of Chinese literature has attracted as much attention as Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". It has been translated more often than any other book except the Bible and more commentaries have been written on it than any other Chinese classic. Both philosophical speculation and mystical reflection, the "Tao Te Ching" is about the harmony and flow of life and the necessity for affinity to it.
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Valuable,
This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
In my view, the main advantages of this particular version of TTCh is the close translation (no interpolation or artistic license) along with an extensive and detailed commentary that help as lot to understand the text as presented as well as know what in it remains admittedly ambiguous. Not the most readable translation, but taken in conjunction with Wilhelm's commentary, a valuable option. This should probably not be the only TTCh that you read, nor the very first one, but it's worth to have read it in addition to other ones. Btw, FYI: the most readable, in my view, translation (well, more like a free-form variation on the theme) is Briggs' "The New Lao Tzu".
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Best Translation of this Ancient Text,
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This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
By far this translation stands out as the absolute best in my eyes. We will never have a "word for word" translation of this old book, and so we are left with comparing one translation with another. I study and practice Zen, and although The Tao Te Ching in a technical sense is not considered a Buddhist work, I would dare say it should be included as a Buddhist Sutra. This translation, for those of us who speak primarily in English, is quite illuminating and very deep.After having compared Richard Wilhelm's translation with 3 other sources, I've concluded that his is the most alive. I feel that my practice with Zen allows me to see this more clearly, so to me this work is synonymous with Zen Buddhism. I recommend that anyone, of any religious affiliation or philosophical background, grab this book immedietely. I don't think you will at all be disappointed. Enjoy!:)
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Lao Tzu's Dao is higher than GOD!!,
By -oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (Honolulu) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
Tao Te Ching : The Book of Meaning and Life by Lao Tzu, Richard WilhelmA Harvard Professor first introduced Lao Tzu to me in the late sixties. He translated the Tao Te Ching into American from the English. Tim's version of "Psychedelic Prayers," still stands as essential Tao. The Tao many of us will travel forever. I came across the Ching in a completely different way. I had read the introduction to John Blofeld's translation of Richard Wilhelm's version of the I Ching; not knowing it could me used as an oracle. That night a few mystifying ladies from Yale University campus, took me home and in an incense & candle lit session, showed me how to enter the mysterious consciousness of the Tao. My concern then as now has been the philosophy of Tao. Book two of Wilhelm's I Ching teaches of the philosophical background of the pattern of change. Everything changes but change has a design. This probably led to my trading Commodities Futures for a living. Recently I found this magnificent Wilhelm's Tao Te Ching. Just as in Book Two, Wilhelm dives right into Lao Tzu's mind with clarity like no one else. "Lao Tzu's Dao is higher than GOD!!"
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