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1) The Analects
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English
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Dialogues, stories, and anecdotes of Confucius reveal the Chinese teacher's perpective on the state, leadership, virtue, and the proper relationship between humankind and nature.
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English
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Analects of Confucius is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius' followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475 BC—221 BC), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BC—220 AD). By the early Han dynasty, the Analects was considered merely a "commentary"...
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English
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"Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? It's because the course challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish. This is why Professor Michael Puett says to his students, The encounter with these ideas will change your life. As one of them told his collaborator, author Christine Gross-Loh, You can open yourself up to possibilities you never imagined were even possible. These astonishing...
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Inner Traditions
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English
Description
"The Complete I Ching marks the first time that an eminent Chinese scholar has translated the original ideographs of the I Ching into English. For more than three thousand years the I Ching has been the most important book of divination in the world. Revered by billions of Chinese as the Classic of Classics and consulted as a source of ancient wisdom, it has been embraced by the West in the last fifty years but always translated by Westerners who...
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New Directions paperbook ; 276
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
Description
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
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Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
Description
"Here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius - informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial text dating to 55 b.c.e. and only made available to the scholarly world in 1997. Based on the earliest Analects yet discovered, this translation provides us with a new perspective on the central canonical text that has defined Chinese culture - and clearly illuminates the...
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Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This is a completely fresh and poetic version of the twenty-five-hundred-year-old Chinese spiritual classic, by one of America's most thought-provoking writers. Moved by a lifelong love for the Tao Te Ching, the novelist and poet Ursula K. Le Guin has been working on this version of the text since the 1950s. Scholar J. P. Seaton has added expert linguistic guidance to her work, bringing to it an equally passionate commitment to scholarly accuracy....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
Description
"Consulted by millions, the I Ching is one of the oldest and most widely used divination systems ever devised. Since ancient times it has provided its readers with insight into their own lives and guidance for the future. All too often, however, the available translations have blurred the basic message of the I Ching's hexagrams and obscured their relevance. Utilizing the knowledge gained from many years of using the I Ching in her practice, psychotherapist...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A philosopher and mother mines classic Daoist texts of Chinese philosophy for wisdom relevant to today's parents. The ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius compared children to tender sprouts, shaped by soil, sunlight, water, and, importantly, the efforts of patient farmers and gardeners. At times children require our protection, other times we need to take a step back and allow them to grow. Like sprouts, a child's character, tendencies, virtues,...