I think Hansen is probably the most "Analytical" professional sinologist publishing today. I'd recommend sampling his text from a local library or ...
KEYILIANG@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:28 pm
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Greetings to our newest member, zzdoggo. I think (if the web stuff is right) that you come from a zenny background. What brings you here and what interests...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 1, 2001 8:21 pm
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... Some folks like his approach, I personally find it incredibly inflexible and locked within a Western analytic scheme, thus my caveat. ... Well, present-day...
Thomas
tc266@...
Jun 1, 2001 9:12 pm
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... Chad Hansen had a good teacher. hmmm.. i wonder who that was? ;) wondering....
George Henry
gchenry@...
Jun 1, 2001 9:55 pm
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Message: 1 ... Hi Keyiliang, I'd agree and also disagree somewhat with this: I agree in as much as we must *definitely* tread carefully when using, say,...
Todd Cameron Thacker
tct25@...
Jun 2, 2001 6:42 pm
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Chad Hansen's book is a very fine study of the use of language in classical Chinese philosophy; since Zhuangzi perhaps had the most subtle understanding of...
Thomas
tc266@...
Jun 2, 2001 7:44 pm
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Greetings to a new member from the antipodes, Paul Love. Please say a few words Paul, about what brings you here and what your interests are that bring you...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 2, 2001 9:43 pm
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... Well, I certainly wouldn't say I see any glaring contradictions between them. :-) I've been more interested in Buddhism/Zen because (based on my ...
Jeff
zzdoggo@...
Jun 3, 2001 6:00 pm
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Welcome to John Chang, our latest member. Care to step up to the mike and say a few words about what brings you here? Daoism certainly seems to attract a good...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 4, 2001 2:17 pm
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Welcome to the newest member, jblake. If you don't mind, could you please indicate what particular Daoist text interests you have? Regards Doug...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 5, 2001 3:14 am
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Hi everyone, I would like to make a pointer to a newly created egroup for Taoism: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/witiw Best regards, Chai Mee Joon, Lawrence...
chaimj@...
Jun 5, 2001 4:06 pm
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Snip For future reference, I am told it is considered bad form to post about other groups without the permission of the moderator of the group you are posting...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 5, 2001 9:07 pm
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... i assumed that you were the creator/owner of this list and it was unmoderated. a moderator can kill posts before they reach the subscriber. apparently you...
George Henry
gchenry@...
Jun 5, 2001 10:23 pm
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Does anybody know of any concordances for some of the major texts? Failing that, does anybody have a list of all occurrences of the symbol for Dao in Zhuangzi?...
Jim
waldpond@...
Jun 5, 2001 11:08 pm
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... it ... subscriber. ... they ... would ... concerned. ... Our views differ. Regards Douglas...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 6, 2001 12:57 am
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... for Dao ... There are the Harvard-Yenching concordances; they are expensive but can be found in a university library (Chinese studies section). I find...
Thomas
tc266@...
Jun 6, 2001 5:02 am
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Welcome to our newest member, Athelasi. Care to scribe a few words about what interests you about Daoist texts and what brings you here? Regards Douglas...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 7, 2001 8:06 pm
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... Many thanks for the welcome Douglas , I will try not to be too much of a lurker . I've joined the group to try and pick up a grasp of Taoism , I've...
Paul Love
plove@...
Jun 10, 2001 12:24 pm
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... Thanks Thomas for the help on this. I'm looking for concordances to avoid downloading copyrighted translations to search. I'll probably have to try ...
Jim
waldpond@...
Jun 11, 2001 5:29 pm
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In a message dated 6/8/01 11:21:50 AM Central Daylight Time, Daoist_Text_Symposium@yahoogroups.com writes: << Welcome to our newest member, Athelasi. Care to...
atheleas@...
Jun 12, 2001 6:07 pm
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While reading reviews in the Journal Early China, I came across a reference to a book which describes the shift in the meaning of "de" (Te) from "potency" for...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 12, 2001 6:20 pm
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My latest preoccupation... Maybe I could say that both the Taoists and the Middle Way Buddhists are *nominalists* in the sense that there is no ultimate...
Thomas
tc266@...
Jun 17, 2001 8:22 am
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Hi Thomas, great post! Indeed, "It's just not an issue for Laozi or Zhuangzi" nor is there even a tendency to "systematize" a problematic. I really wonder...
KEYILIANG@...
Jun 18, 2001 5:46 am
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I am just now reading Shiyi Yu's "Reading the Chuang-tzu in the T'ang Dynasty: The commentary of Cheng Hsuan-ying which also touches on issues of the...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 18, 2001 5:32 pm
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... it just might be various points of time and culture. there were seperate schools two of the most dominant absorbed all. otoh 3. i see that today. fwiw.....
George Henry
gchenry@...
Jun 18, 2001 5:46 pm
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Nagarjuna was the founder of the Buddhist school of the Middle Way, Madhyamika. He thought that the world neither really exists, neither is completely...
Thomas
tc266@...
Jun 19, 2001 7:02 am
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The last verse of "The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way" is splendid: "I prostrate to Gautama Who through compassion Taught the true doctrine Which leads...
Thomas
tc266@...
Jun 19, 2001 3:10 pm
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Welcome to our newest member Pham D. Luan. Another Buddhist in our midst, no? Please, if you don't mind, introduce yourself and let us know in what way you...
Douglas Henderson
kueikutzu@...
Jun 19, 2001 8:19 pm
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... buddhism is a much more difficult trick than daoism.. the implication is that one has to 'sit' and that one needs a teacher. it shys away from textual...
George Henry
gchenry@...
Jun 19, 2001 10:31 pm
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... on second thought.. one has to be a member of a school to understand the things that they discuss. in the ways that they discuss them. buddhism is beyond...
