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Laozi and Daodejing Reception
Translations, sayings, and modern reception texts centered on Laozi and the Daodejing.
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Texts
Lao-tzŭ, A Study in Chinese Philosophy — T. WattersThomas Watters’s study of Lao-tzŭ and the Tao-tê Ching, printed at Hongkong in 1870: the life and legends of the sage, the title, division, text and Chinese editions of the book, its teaching on Tao, physics, politics and ethics, and its relation to Confucius and to later Taoism.Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei — Dwight Goddard and Henri BorelDwight Goddard's lucid 1919 translation of the Tao Te Ching alongside Henri Borel's philosophical essays on Tao, Art, and Love.Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei (Second Edition) — Dwight GoddardThe substantially revised 1939 second edition of Goddard's Tao Te Ching translation, produced with Bhikshu Wai-Tao, plus Borel's essays on Taoism and two historical essays on the development of Taoist philosophy and religion.The Canon of Reason and Virtue — D.T. Suzuki and Paul CarusSuzuki and Carus's 1913 bilingual edition of the Tao Te Ching, with Sze-ma Ch'ien's life of Lao-tze and a running commentary keyed to individual chapters.The Sayings of Lao Tzu — Lionel GilesA thematic arrangement of the Tao Te Ching by the translator of Sun Tzu's Art of War, presenting the sayings of Lao Tzu organized by subject with a scholarly introduction.