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Anthologies and Canonical Collections
Large Daoist anthologies and canonical collections in English translation.
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Texts
Taoist Texts — Frederic Henry BalfourFrederic Henry Balfour's 1884 anthology of ten Taoist treatises in English translation, from the Tao Te Ching to the popular morality tract the Kan Ying Pien.The Texts of Taoism, Part I — James LeggeJames Legge's landmark 1891 translation of the Tao Te Ching and the first seventeen books of Chuang-tzu, with extensive scholarly introduction and commentary, from the Sacred Books of the East series.The Texts of Taoism, Part II — James LeggeJames Legge's 1891 translation of the remaining books of Chuang-tzu (XVIII--XXXIII), the Thai-Shang Tractate of Actions and their Retributions, and eight appendixes including the Classic of Purity and other Taoist texts.