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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (Paperback)

by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)

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Paperback: 125 pages
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc; New edition edition (1 April 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1570623953
ISBN-13: 978-1570623950
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Ursula LeGuin, best know for her sci-fi novels, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than 40 years. Included in this translation are LeGuin's own personal commentary and notes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars unpretentious, simple, beautiful, and thought-provoking., 13 Aug 1998

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This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Hardcover)

I've bought several versions of the Tao Te Ching over the years, my favorite being that by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English. Le Guin's "rendition" startled me with its everyday language and showed the Tao in a new light.

Translations of this work vary considerably, so I was particularly impressed with Le Guin's inclusion of material explaining what led her to this undertaking and why she cast Lao Tzu's ideas the way she did. This honesty and the bare, simple beauty of her language seem to me very much an expression of the Tao.

In a world where everything seems so strident and competetive, this simple account of what one person found in this very old and much-loved book is more valuable to me than shelves full of scholarly, definitive, acclaimed, or approved translations.

This book not only talks about the Tao, it exemplifies the Tao.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensible and Beautiful, 30 Oct 1997

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This review is from: Tao Te Ching (Hardcover)

After looking at dozens of translations, this is the one I kept. It hasn't lost all poetry, and seems true to the spirit of the Tao as I understand it. Still, it's readable by anyone who sits down with it and contemplates.

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first Tao Te Ching translation!, 26 April 1998

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This review is from: Tao Te Ching: Performed by Todd Barton (Shambhala Lion Editions) (Audio Cassette)

I had read Ursula's science fiction, and loved it.
I was walking through "a book store" and her

name caught my eye in the Eastern Thought

section. The rest is history. The Tao Te Ching

is a book that can help you survive in this

century, by remembering what to treasure the most.

Ursula's version is free of sexism, and other power-tripping sometimes added by Westerners.

She does an excellent job of helping us get to

the meaning of the Tao Te Ching, without destroying the beautiful poetry.

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1.0 out of 5 stars too much!
I'll be the first to admit my admiration for Le Guin as a writer and a person. But there is zero justification for this new interpolation. Read more

Published on 22 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A-1 INTERPRETATION RATHER THAN TRANSLATION
THIS VERSION COMES ALIVE TO THE READER.

IT IS MADE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

AFTER STUDYING GIA-FU-FENG, BRIAN WALKER, TAM C. Read more

Published on 16 Jan 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Here is the fierce and compassionate voice of the Mother.
It's funny and delightful and radiant and nuturing too. I was in awe of this contemporary text until I heard the audio tape with LeGuin and Barton. That left me speechless. Read more

Published on 11 Nov 1998

2.0 out of 5 stars Sinologists will not be leaping from bridges in despair
Le Guin notes, "This [book] is a rendition, not a translation. I do do not know any Chinese." Her interpretation joins the growing pseudo-genre of New Age personal... Read more

Published on 21 Sep 1997

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