Taoism Project

[Master Vigil]

I've hear of Burton Watson, what else has he translated or written?

[anders]

Wikipedia: His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia University Press. He received the PEN Translation Prize in 1981.

I think he made the "inner chapters" once (should be the "Basic writings" above), but my copy, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, ISBN 0-231-03147-5 (1968), covers it all.

I find the Legge version, in Sacred Books of the East vols. 39-40, rather too old-fashioned (1890!), and it of course can't make use of more recently found manuscripts, but those volumes are comparatively incredibly cheap when buying reprints directly from Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. (Takes some work, though, but I've managed to buy some 80 lbs. of books from them. So far.)

There is a translation of the "inner chapters" by the philosopher Feng Yulan, from 1933, that I haven't found yet, but it might be interesting. The rightly famous writer and lexicologist Lin Yutang published some excerpts in 1948, The Wisdom of Laotse.