Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years

Name: Lao-tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years
Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Lao Tzu

Dec 2012 · Copper Canyon Press

4.5

4 reviews

Ebook

200

Pages

About this ebook

Revised and re-translated, Red Pine's best-selling and authoritative translation of Taoteching is now--vitally--available once again.

Ratings and reviews

4.5

4 reviews

James Burningham

November 25, 2018

Would like to see how the first few chapters are written in the sample before buying

Lance L

November 30, 2017

A really good book of understanding the true simplicity of life, possibly the meaning.

Logan Smith

April 30, 2023

good app

About the author

Red Pine (aka Bill Porter) is one of the world's leading translators of Chinese literary and religious texts. After dropping out of a Columbia University Ph.D. program, Red Pine moved to a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan; he eventually became a popular radio journalist in Hong Kong, famous for his descriptions of traveling around mainland China. Lao-tzu (ca. 600 BCE) was a Chinese sage who Confucius called "a dragon among men." He served as Keeper of the Royal Archives and authored of one of the world's most cherished spiritual and poetic texts, the Tao Te Ching.

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