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Title: Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years by Lao-Tzu, Red Pine, Lao Tzu ISBN: 1-56279-085-4 Publisher: Mercury House Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is it !
Comment: This is the most helpful book on Taoism I have ever read. After years of reading different translations, overtly loose or too stiff interpretations, and inaccurate relativistic teachings by some Taoist "experts", I have never found a better translation and study book on the Tao concept. The commentaries are very insightful and very useful with several comments on each chapter to look through and compare. The whole book is very practical and nice to read. I'm fairly skeptical at heart (indeed, a skeptic), but there is plenty of wisdom here that is just plain obvious and helpful. If I could only choose one book on Taoism to have, THIS WOULD BE IT. I even bought a spare. I think that much of it.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Outstanding Version
Comment: This is one of the short-list finest English translations of this indispensable work of cosmic insight and practical wisdom (the two are, as Lao Tzu repeatedly points out, identical in effect). Like Jonathan Star's translation (in his wonderful verbatim text), Pine's work is the rendering of a person with a scholarly background who clearly has made a heart-connection with his subject; in short, this is the work of man who loves the Tao and refuses to hide behind a cloak of academic pretence in his translation. The only distraction to the book is its inclusion of commentary from various sources directly on the page with the poems: I much prefer having the translator's or others' commentary in the back of the text, so that the reader can fully experience the poems in the main part of the text independently, without the distraction of "expert insight." These are poems that should be read and re-read, time and again, year after year, for this is a work that always refreshes itself and its readers. In other respects, however, Pine's translation is well worth a spot on the shelf of any lover of the Tao.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indispensable
Comment: This is the best translation of the Tao Te Ching that I've seen. I'm confident that I will not live to see a better translation. This is the only translation I have found that conveys the profound clarity and simplicity of the Tao.
I will go one step further: This is the greatest holy book I have read.
I plan on reading every book by Red Pine/Bill Porter.
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Title: Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lao Tzu ISBN: 1570623953 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Clouds Should Know Me by Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China by Red Pine, Mike O'Connor, Andrew Schelling ISBN: 0861711432 Publisher: Wisdom Publications Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma : A Bilingual Edition by Red Pine, Bodhidharma ISBN: 0865473994 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Road to Heaven: Encounters With Chinese Hermits by Bill Porter, Steven R. Johnson ISBN: 1562790412 Publisher: Mercury House Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit by Qinggong, Ch'Ing-Hung, Red Pine, Stonehouse, Bill Porter ISBN: 156279101X Publisher: Mercury House Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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