Greetings all - i was wondering if anyone could suggest a few academic works on Religious Daoism. Emphasis in the West seems to be placed on its Philosophic...
For general readership (not overly specialist), try: HOLMES WELCH, Taoism: The Parting of the Way But it should be quite dated now, I think. Boram Lee ... ...
... About a dozen years ago I was in a large bookstore looking through about 200 books on Buddhism, when it suddenly struck me that in all that huge collection...
... Michael Saso's book "Taoist Master Chuang" is very good, as a portrait of a modern Taoist priest in Taiwan who is also a practitioner of Taoist philosophy...
Hello fellow Daoist! What would a daoist do in a situation like: 1. If he's in pain, like severe physical pain. For example, there is no cure in his sickness...
Hello fellow Daoist! What would a daoist do in a situation like: 1. If he's in pain, like severe physical pain. For example, there is no cure in his sickness...
Hi Ernest, allow me to comment a bit on your question with my limited knowledge & wisdom. :) 1. He has to live & do whatever is necessary to support his life....
F.Y.I I have the biggest Daoist text library in America, but they are all in Chinese. haha ... Michael Saso's book "Taoist Master Chuang" is very good, as a...
Hi Joseph, i haven't read many daoist texts. but the essential one is always 'Dao De Jing' & 'Way of Zhuang Zi'. on these two, it is adviceable to read 3 or...
Hello Ed I think most people on this forum are sensitized, if not extremely sensitive, to the use of the term "religious Daoism" in the thread's title. There's...
Hi Brad, thanks for the reminder. II missed that point earlier. as you correctly pointed, mine is more towards the philosophical dao (Dao Jia) i/o the...
Although, the DDJ IS part of the Daoist Canon. Some things just are filtered the a religious prism. For instance, I remember reading that some passages of...
A newly joined member mentioned hearing about this group from another site,daoisopen.com which includes a forum. Now although I take issue with their...
... The Tao Bums discussion forum is an informal community created to discuss Tao (Dao), particularly as is expressed in key philosophical texts such as the...
Besides Dao Is Open and Dao Talk I also look in on two fairly busy forums, but I don't watch them thoroughly enough to know if they are consistently deep or...
In the past, I've tended to reverse the process, posting here, then reposting to Alt.philosophy.taoism in case anyone there might be interested or have...
... Wang Rongpei, the new bilingual. This list is a little dated, but I can post a PDF sample or two from any item on request, or even the whole Cook Ting...
... Creel (unread) Giles Legge Waley Watson The above are considered the go-to guys and then we have.. Cleary Hinton Palmer Correa Hmm.. Nina should be first. ...
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... Chad Hansen If all true existence is Buddha nature, then everything truly already is Buddha nature. Hence there is nothing to change, nothing to achieve,...
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If you are going to spend all that work comparing translations you might consider just learning Chinese or working with someone who knows Chinese. It is kind...
... I think I'd recommend doing both. When translating the Daodejing and the Yijing I studied every translation I could find at least twice (and there's a lot...
... An afterthought on this comment, however. I would not look at all to the ideas English translators have about how OLD Chinese grammar converts to English...
yeah, of course, I geuss you havn't read the history of Loek Yum Seen Si (see http://www.wanderingtaoist.net/) Douglas Henderson <kueikutzu@...> wrote:...
... knows ... had ... yourself. ... Not at all. From my point of view, your suggestion is analgous to my saying I want to buy a car, and your suggesting the I...
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:54:51 -0000 ... And sometimes the English simply doesn't work. Like shi and fei which can be translated as yes and no, this is it and...
Well, I will avoid a long argument about the need to understand texts in the language they were written. But I would like to point out that it is quite unlike...
Just another carrot for this stew - I'm not entirely convinced that the Chinese understand Zhuangzi in Chinese any better than westerners understand him in...
https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp? key1=&key2=&orig=results&isbn=0%207546%203730%201 Has anyone read it? Comments? Is it worth $100 dollars? Regards ...
... You need to paste that link back together to make it work. There's something deeply wrong and offensive about $100 for a 191 page book. Not apt to get...
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