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Lao-tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years |  | Author: Lao-tzu
Creator: Red Pine (Bill Porter)
Publisher: Mercury House
Category: Book
Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 392612
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1ST
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1562790854
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51482
EAN: 9781562790851
ASIN: 1562790854
Publication Date: April 1, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) offers a new perspective on the Chinese classic Taoteching. A competent translator and interpreter of Chinese religion, he renders his work with an eye for detail and a spiritualism cultivated during years of Zen monastery living. It's odd that many read translations of Chinese classics as bare-bones texts, whereas no Chinese would tackle such obscurity in the absence of a helping hand from previous pundits. Fortunately, it is no longer necessary to rely on mystical insight in order to understand the Taoteching. Instead, we can look to the 12 or so commentators that Red Pine resurrects from Chinese history. With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.
Product Description
The Taoteching, written some 2,500 years ago by a man known only as Lao-tzu ("the Old Master"), encapsulates the wisdom of Taoism. Red Pine's translation of this most revered of Chinese texts breathes new life into the poems and corrects errors in previous interpretations. This edition also includes the text in the original Chinese and selected commentaries by monks, priests, nuns, and philosophers over the last 2,000 years.
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 A New, Revised Edition is Available February 26, 2010
dfred495
Please not that a new, revised edition of the Tao Te Ching by Red Pine is now available at Amazon for $12.24. It was published in November of 2009. Don't pay $94 for the old edition!
Meaningful and Scholarly Take on Ancient Wisdom February 23, 2010
S. Glick (Maine)
Red Pine has captured a new vitality within the "original" Tao te Ching in his translation. His verse translations are clear and poetic, shying away from explanation in the poems. The accompanying commentaries are just enough to open the world of the verses beyond a literal interpretation. I purchased this paperback book used, knowing that it had some stains on the edges. It was well worth the price. Highest recommendation.
 I guess I will be the naysayer. August 31, 2009
James (st louis, mo)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
First off I want to say that I am a fan of Bill Porter. I own, and have enjoyed, several of his translations, namely, The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th Century Chinese Hermit by Red Pine. This is an incredible book and well worth owing, if you can get your hands on it.
However, I am sorry to say that I find this to be a rather poor version of the Tao Te Ching. Those of us who are not fortunate enough to be able to read Chinese have to rely on a translation, ..of course. There is a basic rule involving translation, and that is, it should read well in the language that it is translated to. Regrettably this translation misses the mark. The Tao Te Ching is poetry after all, poetry is a basic element to the text, and poetry is wholly missing from this edition.
Another problem with the text is that it seems to be lacking in common sence.
For example, in the 69th verse Porter translates,
"no fate is worse than to have no enemy
without an enemy we would loose our treasure."
Compare that to the Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English edition which reads,
"The is no greater catastrophe than underestimating the enemy.
By underestimating the enemy, I almost lose what I value."
This is a pretty major diversion, and this edition is chalked full of this type of miss-connect. There is also the matter of the use of the phrase "Dark Virtue." I'm not going to get too far into this, but basically Porter says that he agrees that the word "Tao" really means "moon" and in particular, the new "Dark" moon. He then takes every opportunity to translate in to the text his "Dark Virtue" so as to drive the point home.
"Dark Virtue" is a particularly nonsensical expression and it simply muddies up a muddy translation even further.
Again, I'm sorry to say it. I just feel that someone new to the Tao Te Ching needs to be warned off of this book. You have better options available to you. I do recommend this book to those looking for a second or third translation to explore, but certainly not to those looking for a first and only copy.
Best wishes.
(flame suit on)
Please Re-Print! December 28, 2008
David Shoup
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love Bill Porters translation of the Han Shan poems "Collected songs of Cold Mountain". I would like to read his take on the taoteching but over $100 is a bit much. PLEASE RE-PRINT :)
The BEST on the Tao December 30, 2007
David Malek (Los Angeles, CA - USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Of all the tranlations of the Tao, Red Pine's is by far the best. I've read a lot of other Tao translations and none offer the clear interpretation that Red Pine offers. This is a must have book by the most qualified voice on the subject and at a price that cannot be beat.
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