Author: Hans-Georg Moeller
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: daodejing, philosophy
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 023113679X
ISBN-13: 9780231136792

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

Authors:Laozi, Benjamin Penny,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, daodejing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0199208557
ISBN-13: 9780199208555

"Of ways you may speak, / but not the Perennial Way; / By names you may name, / but not the Perennial Name." So begins 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. Laozi’s 2,500 year-old masterpiece is a work that defies definition. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modeled 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 indi

Authors:Laozi,  Philip J. Ivanhoe,
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: laozi, daodejing
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0872207013
ISBN-13: 9780872207011

A reprint of the Seven Bridges Press edition of 2002. 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.

Authors:Rudolf G. Wagner, Laozi, Wang Bi,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: chinese, culture, english, mandarin, philosophy, series, reading, daodejing, suny
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $98.50
ISBN-10: 079145181X
ISBN-13: 9780791451816

Presenting the commentary of the third-century sage Wang Bi, this book provides a Chinese way of reading the Daodejing, one which will surprise Western readers.

Author: Laozi Sean Golden
Publisher: PUBLICACIONS DE L’ ABADIA DE MONTSERRAT
Keywords: del, dao, llibre, daodejing
Published: 2006
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8484158020
ISBN-13: 9788484158028