Sunday 9 June 2024

The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu - A Theosophical Bibliography - Lao Zi Daodejing

Theosophists have made at least 6 translations of the Tao Te Ching.
Without trying, they have contributed to making the Doa De Jing, one of the most translated texts in the world.

 

 

 

 
Walter Gorn-Old 1894
 
C. Spurgeon Medhurst 1905
 
D.T. Suzuki & Paul Carus 1913
 
Dwight Goddard 1919 (Not really a Theosophist, but his translation of the Lankavatara Sutra, with the assistance of D.T. Suzuki, is quite Theosophy-friendly in my opinion, although purists might object to his renderings, but I think that they were appropriately accessible for a general western public.
 
Isabella Mears,  1922
 
Charles H. Mackintosh 1926
 
Henry Wei, 1982
 
Some recommended versions by other translators:

The Annotated Laozi: A New Translation of the Daodejing
Paul Fischer 2023
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Annotated-Laozi

The Annotated Critical Laozi: With Contemporary Explicat…
Guying Chen
https://brill.com/display/title/32696?language=en

The Heshang Gong Commentary on Lao Zi's Daodejing
Dan G. Reid
https://www.facebook.com/HoShangKung/posts/pfbid02MXECmts9DYuiL2FJWdS1Ng1d8UXWC1VhDCXiBmuqVSXWLnVTKEGtdEGLqHMFY8Nal

Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao
2018
John Minford
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/529321/tao-te-ching-by-lao-tzu-translated-with-an-introduction-and-commentary-by-john-minford/9780143133803

A Translation of Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi’s Commentary Paperback –  1977 Paul J. Lin
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/41829/9780472901388.pdf

Treasuries of the Tao: A Translation of the TAO-TE CHING with Chinese Commentaries revealing a relevance to Taoist Yoga and its Philosophies Paperback – 2016 Richard Bertschinger
https://books.google.ca/books/about/Treasuries_of_the_Tao.html?id=YcoTMQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

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