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Dao de Jing

The United Version

Dao de Jing( )
Author: Laozi,
Translator: Peng, Yang
ISBN:978-1-58177-157-2
Publication Date:Oct 2016
Publisher:Barrytown/Station Hill Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.95
Book Description:

This new translation of the Chinese classic and foundation text of Daoism integrates the manuscript discoveries of the last 30 years, introducing a fundamentally different view of the nature of the Dao. Michael Puett, the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, calls this translation "an excellent translation of one of the most important texts from the Chinese philosophical tradition," and goes on to...
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Book Details
Pages:152
Detailed Subjects: Religion / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.62 x 8.25 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:0.28 Pounds
Author Biography
Laozi (Author)


Laozi was a philosopher and poet of ancient China. He is best known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, but he is also revered as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. Although a legendary figure, he is usually dated to around the 6th century BC and seen as a contemporary of Confucius, but some historians contend that he actually lived during the Warring States period of the 5th or 4th century BC.

Laozi is traditionally regarded as the author of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching). It is one of the most significant treatises in Chinese cosmogony. As with most other ancient Chinese philosophers, Laozi often explains his ideas by way of paradox, analogy, appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition, symmetry, and rhyme. In fact, the whole book can be read as an analogy the ruler is the awareness, or self, in meditation and the myriad creatures or empire is the experience of the body, senses and desires.

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