The Classic of the Way and Virtue A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Bi |
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| Translator:
| Lynn, Richard John |
| Series title: | Translations from Asian Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-10581-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $46.95 |
Book Description:
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At last, the most influential book of Taoist tradition is available in an edition that allows English-language readers to experience it the way Chinese readers have for centuries. Richard John Lynn's translation includes the essential commentary of the third-century scholar Wang Bi, whose interpretations of this classic helped to define it as a philosophy of life and one of the most significant works in the East Asian tradition. The text consists of eighty-one short, aphoristic...
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At last, the most influential book of Taoist tradition is available in an edition that allows English-language readers to experience it the way Chinese readers have for centuries. Richard John Lynn's translation includes the essential commentary of the third-century scholar Wang Bi, whose interpretations of this classic helped to define it as a philosophy of life and one of the most significant works in the East Asian tradition. The text consists of eighty-one short, aphoristic sections presenting a complete view of how the sage rules in accordance with the spontaneous ways of the natural world.