The second book of the Tao

compiled and adapted from the Chuang-tzu and the Chung yung, with commentaries

English language

Published Nov. 26, 2009 by New York.

ISBN:
978-1-59420-203-2
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OCLC Number:
233549513

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Enhanced by Stephen Mitchell's illuminating commentary, the next volume of the classic manual on the art of livingThe most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, renowned scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell has composed the innovative The Second Book of the Tao. Drawn from the work of Lao-tzu's disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius's grandson Tzussu, The Second Book of the Tao offers Western readers a path into reality that has nothing to do with Taoism or Buddhism or old or new alone, but everything to do with truth. Mitchell has selected the freshest, clearest teachings from these two great students of the Tao and adapted them into versions that reveal the poetry, depth, and humor of the original …

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Subjects

  • Zhuangzi
  • Zhong yong