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The Dao De Jing - Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese (Hardcover)
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The Dao De Jing - Laozi's Book of Life: A New Translation from the Ancient Chinese (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of
Laozi’s The Dao De Jing, from the bestselling translator
of The Art of War, promising to be the first English edition
based on direct translation from the oldest known copies of the
ancient Chinese text. One of the most significant and popular books
in the history of human thought, and China’s earliest
philosophical classic, The Dao De Jing has served for
millennia as a brilliant guide to living healthily and happily, to
treating the Earth with respect, and to understanding our place in
the cosmos. The Dao is as vitally important to
today’s world as it was during the Bronze Age, presenting us with
clear and unexpectedly sane answers to some of the most pressing
questions and challenges of our time. This beloved classic teaches
us to become one with nature, with all people, and with the world;
with the ultimate intention of illuminating the path to peace and
promoting the conditions for harmony—within the self and in the
greater world around us. Renowned translator J. H. Huang has spent
over two decades researching the Dao, resulting in the
most accurate translation to date based on the oldest known
transcripts of the text. Huang’s translation is the first to
incorporate four major archaeological findings, which have been
preserved for millennia in ancient tombs, most of which were only
discovered in the late twentieth century: the Guodian Chu slips,
the Mawangdui silk texts, the Fu Yi version, and the Peking
University bamboo slips. Huang argues that these key source
materials “contextualize The Dao De Jing much in the same way the
Dead Sea Scrolls illuminate the New Testament.” The result is a
groundbreaking translation that offers readers the first
opportunity in over two millennia to thoroughly comprehend all of
the teachings contained in these eighty-one chapters.Â
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