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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
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 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.