Tao Te Ching by David Hinton - ISBN: 9781619025561
Paperback
“Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching is not only the single most important text in Chinese spirituality, it is probably the most influential spiritual text in human history. In the past, virtually all translations of this text have been produced either by sinologists having little poetic facility in English, or …

Tao Te Ching

  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    9 June 2015

Summary

An expert on Chinese poetry and philosophy offers a definitive modern translation ofLao Tzu’s Taoistclassic-consideredthe most influential spiritual text in human history.Like all of his translations, Hinton’s translation of the Tao Te Ching is mind-opening, presenting startling new dimensions in this widely-influential text. He shows how Lao Tzu’s spirituality is structured around the generative life-force and that this system of thought weaves the human into natural process at the deepest l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781619025561
ISBN-10:1619025566
Author:David Hinton
Publisher:Counterpoint
Imprint:Counterpoint
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:9 June 2015
Weight:156g
Dimensions:209mm x 139mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Hinton has established himself as the premier Chinese translator of our generation… He is a national treasure.”

“Hinton has established himself as the premier Chinese translator of our generation… He is a national treasure.”–The New York Sun

About The Author

David Hinton

David Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States- the Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Translation Award. His recent book of essays, Hunger Mountain- A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape, was on the Best-Books-of-the-Year list at The Guardian in England. Hinton lives in Vermont.

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