Daodejing

Author : Laozi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:670129765

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Tao Te Ching by Laozi Pdf

Author : Laozi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520973596

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Dao De Jing by Laozi Pdf

The book is fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Daoist words and concepts. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Daodejing as a source of inspiration. Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, and is amongst the most translated works in world literature. This book strongly influenced New Thought movements in west including James Allen.

Author : Hans-Georg Moeller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231510103

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The Philosophy of the Daodejing by Hans-Georg Moeller Pdf

For centuries, the ancient Chinese philosophical text the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) has fascinated and frustrated its readers. While it offers a wealth of rich philosophical insights concerning the cultivation of one's body and attaining one's proper place within nature and the cosmos, its teachings and structure can be enigmatic and obscure. Hans-Georg Moeller presents a clear and coherent description and analysis of this vaguely understood Chinese classic. He explores the recurring images and ideas that shape the work and offers a variety of useful approaches to understanding and appreciating this canonical text. Moeller expounds on the core philosophical issues addressed in the Daodejing, clarifying such crucial concepts as Yin and Yang and Dao and De. He explains its teachings on a variety of subjects, including sexuality, ethics, desire, cosmology, human nature, the emotions, time, death, and the death penalty. The Daodejing also offers a distinctive ideal of social order and political leadership and presents a philosophy of war and peace. An illuminating exploration, The Daodejing is an interesting foil to the philosophical outlook of Western humanism and contains surprising parallels between its teachings and nontraditional contemporary philosophies.

Author : Rudolf G. Wagner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791489581

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A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing by Rudolf G. Wagner Pdf

"Many of the brightest Chinese minds have used the form of the commentary to open the terse and poetic chapters of the Laozi to their readers and also to develop a philosophy of their own. None has been more sophisticated, philosophically probing, and influential in the endeavor than a young genius of the third century C.E., Wang Bi (226-249). In this book, Rudolf G. Wagner provides a full translation of the Laozi that extracts from Wang Bi's Commentary the manner in which he read the text, as well as a full translation of Wang Bi's Commentary and his essay on the "subtle pointers" of the Laozi. The result is a Chinese reading of the Laozi that will surprise and delight Western readers familiar with some of the many translations of the work." --Book Jacket.

Author : Laozi
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603846387

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The Daodejing of Laozi by Laozi Pdf

Philip J. Ivanhoe's richly annotated translation of this classic work is accompanied by his engaging interpretation and commentary, a lucid introduction, and a Language Appendix that compares eight classic translations of the opening passage of the work and invites the reader to consider the principles upon which each was rendered.

Author : Lao zi
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780385196376

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Dao de Jing by Lao zi Pdf

A new translation of the "Tao Te Ching" merges ancient Eastern philosophy with contemporary Western sensibilities to provide a philosophical strategy for enhancing personal growth

Author : Roger Ames,David Hall
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307755308

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Dao De Jing by Roger Ames,David Hall Pdf

In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of the Dao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world. In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. This new version of one of the world’s most influential documents will stand as both a compelling introduction to Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation.

Author : Thomas Michael
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438458991

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In the Shadows of the Dao by Thomas Michael Pdf

Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation. Thomas Michael’s study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao. Michael explores the ways in which the text systematically anchored these techniques to a Dao-centered worldview. Including a new translation of the Daodejing, In the Shadows of the Dao opens new approaches to understanding the early history of one of the world’s great religious texts and great religious traditions. Thomas Michael specializes in early Chinese religion, philosophy, and shamanism, and is the author of The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Laozi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HY4IHE

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The Canon of Reason and Virtue ... by Laozi Pdf

Author : Laozi,Philip J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0872207013

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The Daodejing of Laozi by Laozi,Philip J. Ivanhoe Pdf

A Daoist classic that has had a profound influence on Chinese thought, the Laozi or Daodejing, evolved into its present form sometime around the third century BCE and continues to enjoy great popularity throughout East Asia and beyond. Philip J Ivanhoe's lucid and philosophically-minded interpretation and commentary offer fresh insights into this classic work. In the substantial introduction and numerous notes, Ivanhoe draws attention to the issues at play in the text, often relating them to contemporary philosophical discussions and directing the reader to related passages within the Daodejing and to other works of the period. The Language Appendix, unique to this edition, offers eight translations of the opening passage by well-known and influential scholars and explains, line-by-line, how each might have reached his particular interpretation.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611807240

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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching—from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin’s unique take on Taoist philosophy’s founding classic. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation and including extensive personal commentary throughout, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world. Jargon-free but still faithful to the poetic beauty of the original work, Le Guin’s unique translation is sure to be welcomed by longtime readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those discovering the text for the first time.

Author : The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136577284

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The Way and Its Power by The Arthur Waley Estate,Arthur Waley Pdf

First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Tê Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.

Author : Hans-Georg Moeller,Laozi
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812699371

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Daodejing by Hans-Georg Moeller,Laozi Pdf

This translation presents Daoism’s basic text in highly readable contemporary English. Incorporating the latest scholarship in the field (including the most recent discoveries of ancient manuscripts in the 1970s and '90s), the book explains Daodejing's often cryptic verses in a clear and concise way. The introduction interprets the Daodejing's poetic imagery in the context of ancient Chinese symbolism, and a brief philosophical analysis accompanies each of the 81 translated chapters of the Daodejing.

Author : Laozi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191607257

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Daodejing by Laozi Pdf

'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 Silver River or Milky Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It enables the individual, and society as a whole, to harmonize the disparate demands of daily life and achieve a more profound level of understanding. This new translation draws on the latest archaeological finds and brings out the word play and poetry of the original. Simple commentary accompanies the text, and the introduction provides further historical and interpretative context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Livia Kohn,Michael LaFargue
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791436004

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Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching by Livia Kohn,Michael LaFargue Pdf

Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.