Anthologies and Canonical Collections

Large Daoist anthologies and canonical collections in English translation.

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  • 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.