Tao Te Ching [Kindle Edition]

Lao Tzu (Author), James Legge (Translator)

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Product Description

The Tao Te Ching is the classic source book for the spiritual tradition of Taoism.

It consists of 81short verses, attempts to distill the vision of 'the Way" as the all-encompassing reality behind phenomena. Some of its pronouncements have found there way into common speech, such as "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Reading the Tao Te Ching brings you into contact with a source of wisdom and life that is timeless, wise, and profound. This ebook edition has been prepared cleanly and simply to invite repeated readings and browsing.

This edition has a new introduction, active table of contents, and a clean and simple presentation.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 139 KB
• Print Length: 64 pages
• Publisher: BLTC Press (March 15, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00161IUAO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good navigation, October 25, 2010

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James O. Smith (Minneapolis, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tao Te Ching (1891 Legge Translation with ClicBrowz navigation) (Kindle Edition)

This book is what it says it is: a public domain text articulated with hyperlinks for easy access to all sections of the book and the table of contents. This is not an automatically generated Kindle format of a public domain text. It has been hand crafted throughout with hyperlinks to make movement around the book easy. I have downloaded literally hundreds of public domain texts formated for the Kindle, but very few of them have decent hyperlink navigation. Even new books are rarely designed with effective navigation. This book, though, was designed with the reader in mind.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thorough Victorian effort, July 10, 2000

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Webster Forrest (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

This edition reproduces in facimile form the James Legge translation of the Tao Te Ching, as published in the series "The Sacred Books of the East". This series was published by Oxford in the 1870's and 1880's. The present edition contains more in the form of annotations than it does translated text, as was not unusual in Victorian times. This translation certainly deserves a great deal of credit. Apparantly it does contain minor errors, though I can say that I have found nothing by way of a concrete inconsistency in the ideas as expressed in this translatin in comparison with the same chapters in other translations. Many people enjoy, and find meaning in this translation. If I could only have one translation of the Tao Te Ching, this would be the one. I have removed one star, because the author occasionally expresses (in the notes) a disbelief of the material he is translating, which I find irrelevant but not obstructive to understanding and enjoying the work itself.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ugh!, March 20, 2000

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Jennifer Maxwell (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)

Could this translation be any worse? Reading through this version of the Tao was like wading through chin-high mud. For a much more enjoyable read, pick up John C.H. Wu's translation.