rene Posted December 1, 2010 (edited) Know of any good links to help in understanding or translating the TaoTeChing? Post them here! We need all the help we can get! PLEASE POST RESOURCES ONLY - COMMENTS CAN BE PLACED ON THE GENERAL DISCUSSIONS THREAD - THANK YOU. *** To get us started, here's a few offered by Stigweard. Thanks Stig! Chinese Etymology Home Page YellowBridge Chinese Language and Culture Laozi Daodejing Siegelschrift - Sealscript 老子 道德經 篆書 - Laotse Taoteking <--that site is wonderful,btw. Learn Chinese Characters 老 子「道 德 經」Tao Te Ching in Big 5 LaoTze DaoDeJing [Tao Te Ching] Chinese text Roget's Thesaurus (1911) - The ARTFL Project Thesaurus.com | Find Synonyms and Antonyms of Words at Thesaurus.com Online Etymology Dictionary Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu [Dao De Jing by Lao Zi] Terebess Asia Online - TAO <--that one, too LaoTze - TaoDeJing The Complete Works of Lao Tzu -- Ni Hua Ching *** edit: fix broken links Edited December 2, 2010 by Apech Edited at request of Twinner and others (Resources Only). 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted December 1, 2010 More resources: The Big View pdf downloads of T. McCarrel and Feng/English translations. Underdog Way free pdf download of a compendium of translations (including Russian). Translations site with many translation in various languages (I posted this before). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rene Posted December 1, 2010 Here's the link to "175+ translations of Chapter 1". 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted December 1, 2010 Links on Neo-Taoist scholar Wang Bi Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://www.iep.utm.edu/wangbi/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanfor...ies/neo-taoism/ courtesy of Dawei 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawei Posted December 1, 2010 (edited) Chinese Character Related: MDBG Dictionary ZDic Character Lookup Search by Radical Search by Unicode Concerning Lao Zi: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on Lao Zi Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on Lao Zi Lao Zi by Vicent Shen (PDF) Lao Zi’s Concept of Zi Ran Online Translations: DDJ by Waley and Lau, with mouse over on characters Tao Te King (trilingual) DDJ Translation Selector Multiple Translations Side by Side Translations Based on the Wang Bi manuscript: (Amazon.com) The Way of Lao Tzu by Wing-Tsit Chan Tao Te Ching by David Hinton Translations based on Wang Bi commentary notes: (Amazon.com) A Chinese reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's commentary... by Rudolf Wagner The Classic of the Way and Virtue by Richard John Lynn Translations based on the Ma Wang Dui manuscript: (Amazon.com) Te-Tao Ching by Robert Hendricks Books based on the Guodian manuscript: (Amazon.com) Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching by Robert Hendricks The Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College Guodian Lao Zi Related: Guodian Bamboo Pictures at DIO Edited December 1, 2010 by dawei 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alfred E Posted December 2, 2010 (edited) One of my Favorite authors on the applications of Taoist Philosophy AKA: TTC. He only signed his name "Wei Wu Wei" THE 'WEI WU WEI' ARCHIVES Edited December 2, 2010 by Alfred E 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bamboo Posted February 2, 2011 Hey bums, one to watch out for, due any time soon. http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Teachings-Classic/dp/1590308964/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1296657994&sr=8-2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
odi Posted February 9, 2011 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/articlelist_1731562935_4_1.html you won't regret when you click this site I offered.But one thing should know,it's written by Chinese.Maybe need your translation. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stigweard Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) How to use the above translation tools Let's take a complex character like De 德 found in Chapter 54. Step 1: Open up these 2 sites: http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/chinese-dictionary.php http://www.internationalscientific.org/CharacterASP/EtymologyHome.aspx In Yellowbridge paste the character into Chinese to English field and click Search. Then click on the Etymology tab. In Chinese Etymology paste into the blank field and click the Etymology button. Results: In both Yellowbridge and Chinese Etymology we see that the character is a composite of the characters: 彳 + 悳 Step 2: Now repeat a search in each site using the composite characters (in Yellow bridge you can just <ctrl> left click on the character). Note down the meanings and the pictographic imagery. Make sure you bear in mind that some component parts of a character are use for phonetics whilst some for meaning. Results: The character 彳 is straightforward. Note down the meaning of this character. Character: 彳 Pinyin: Chì Pictograph: left half of a road intersection Definition: step with left foot / left half or road However 悳 is itself a composite of 直 + 心. So once again repeat searches using these components. Character: 直 Pinyin: Zhí Pictograph: the eye 目 which sees straight 十 Definition: straight, erect, vertical / continuous / uninterrupted Character: 心 Pinyin: Xīn Pictograph: Picture of a heart. Definition: the heart / the mind / conscience / moral nature / intention / idea / intelligence / soul Step 3: Now you can reassemble the character. Look at all the meanings and pictographic imagery to flesh out your understanding of the various implications and usage. Character: 德 Pinyin: Dé Pictograph: To walk a strait 悳 (virtuous) road 彳 Definition: Morality / decency / virtues / favor / kindness / behavior / conduct Step 4: Always cross-reference with other resources. If the character is in the Daodejing then I always use these sites: http://www.alice-dsl.net/taijiren/index.html http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Daodejing http://www.edepot.com/taoblank.html http://wayist.org/ttc%20compared/indexchp.htm If it not in the Daodejing I use these: http://zhongwen.com/ http://www.nciku.com/ Edited March 25, 2011 by Stigweard 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SageMD Posted March 30, 2011 So far, I like this web link: http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polymorphe Posted March 14, 2013 Well, since this thread isn't entirely dead. If you approach the DDJ you may be interested in Bradford Hatcher's matrix translation. Also, you should at least have a background in Classical Chinese; this would make the process of translation quite more straight-forward, instead of a hit-and-miss combinatorial approach. For this, E. G. Pulleyblank's Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar tends to float around online and provides a sufficient (albeit not cutting edge) framework. Still, it's a long way ahead from the 'Chinese is just a bunch of ideograms thrown together for good measure', and quite helpful. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BaguaKicksAss Posted April 28, 2014 Not sure if this is the right place to post it, but Andrew Nugent-Head sharing more of his awesomeness! Dao de jing translation project. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Mar-Vell Posted April 28, 2014 ... Awezome linkz tanx all. ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taoismtaoism Posted February 6, 2015 I found a very useful free Android app for the Tao Te Ching. It has 3 translations in 4 languages. You can see it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ftt.taoteching&hl=en Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Riyue Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) For your information: The Site http://www.alice-dsl.net/taijiren/index.html got deleted completely by taijiren . All links to this website and subpages do not work. For example Guodian-Laozi and Daodejing ...read... as MP3 - files... Edited September 10, 2016 by Riyue Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ano Eremita Posted August 15, 2021 On 4/28/2014 at 6:06 PM, BaguaKicksAss said: Not sure if this is the right place to post it, but Andrew Nugent-Head sharing more of his awesomeness! Dao de jing translation project. would you say this video (including it's playlist) is a good starting point for someone (me) that's been flirting around with Laozi quotes and now wants to settle down and look into the daodejing? or any other guidance most welcome . thank you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morphius Posted October 23, 2022 (edited) This is a link to what is probably the most in-depth translation of the Dao De Jing done yet: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364643573_The_Daodejing_A_2022_Translation Edited October 23, 2022 by Morphius Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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eric fagundes Posted February 23, 2023 that's a very interesting website / tool that has 10 different translations where you can compare 5 of them simultaneously https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh/section:1 most of the sources are from terebess.hu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
