Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the Daoist_Text_Symposium group: Should the group be terminated because of the lack of contributions...
Hello everyone, this is my first post to the group. I am not sure if this is the right place for me to ask questions. Since I am not a scholar, just interested...
Hello Florian- Personally I have huge problems with the traditional gloss of ke3 in this line as ke4 (can) and this has made me have to rethink the whole ...
Hi Yiying ... The symmetry is all-important, no matter which of the zillion ways you translate it. I have an odd sort of translation of this (but my Matrix...
... But if the "path" is the "one we are all travelling", how does that differ from a "general path". Also, the use of "general" or "generic" for "chang"...
Hi again ... The known river is defined by its course, it's Dao. The unknown river is defined by its substance or quality. General, eternal and usual should...
May I try mine, a little Heideggerian, but also quite literal: "The Waying (or walking) that can be wayed (or walked on) is not the constant waying (walking); ...
... Not quite sure I catch you here. isn't a river defined by its course whether it is known or unknown? how is something unknown to be defined (if not in the...
Hi Florian, ... Personally, I do not like it. I think dao as a verb is something very different than to "be experienced through the five senses". Its relation ...
Hi all- Since I qualified my little offering as "one of a zillion" possibilities, that responded specifically to the problem "what if ke3 did not mean "can," I...
can you guys anwser these questions? (i) What are superior virtue? and inferior virtue? according to Laozi? (ii) Why did Laozi criticize inferior virtue? (iii)...
Hi- ... Just one set of opinions, in brief. But first, to translate De2 as virtue without remembering its other glosses really clips the meaning. Here are...
I must confess I am somewhat puzzled. On the one hand there is little participation on the list and out of the more than one hundred members, only 16 bothered...
Hi Douglas- ... Sounds like we're not unsubscribing in droves. For my part, I still get all the Emails, but only jump in when my fairly narrow interests are ...
I don´t know...I´m from Argentina, and my impression on this list is that it´s very specific in a various number of ways. Here, in Argentina, we don´t have...
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The following Daoist_Text_Symposium poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Should the group be terminated because of the lack of...
Hi all, With the recent inquiry into new members, I thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Steve Gladstone and I've been a member of this group for 13 months...
I'm new one and my name is Luigi and i'm an italian who has studied "laozi" for several years. Here i'm writing to ask if somebody knows the address of Prof....
... like this ... tend to ... thread) to a ... group ... Steve, I always feel as if textual studies and historical understanding can bring us closer to the...
It's Henricks! He teaches at Dartmouth College. Thomas ... De : "defrancoluis" <defrancoluis@...> À : <Daoist_Text_Symposium@yahoogroups.com> Envoyé :...
thanks for the information received about henricks. is anybody there that have the original copy of guodian laozi, or in which magazine i can find one? i'm...
Luigi- glad to help. when you find the slips, there's a helpful index to the Guodian text in Section B of my site. It's cross referenced to the received texts,...
Thomas said he's still at Dartmouth so the address should be good, Best of luck. I do architecture and land planning for a living, about 1 day a week. The rest...
Thank you. i have already check out your site about laozi. but what i'm looking for are the original characters not the transcription of them in new chinese...
Hi again Luigi- One thing good to know is that the archives of Daoist Text Symposium are searchable by key words like Guodian. I know there are links in here ...
Hi everybody, new member here, Ive been trying to locate a chinese copy of a couple of daoist texts online= . I just want to further my (meager) knowledge of...
Bom Dia Pedro, Some doors opened up for me when I finally figured out I could change the language on a Google advanced search and paste in Big5 characters. Got...
Hi Brad :) Thanks for both sugestions, but I had tryed them already. I know of you excelent link file, and although I found many interesting texts through...
