Taoism Project

[ch'ang]

:help:I'm currently working my senior high project (just a big thing i need to do to graduate) and i was wondering if anyone had some interesting/helpful sites and or comments that could help me finish it. Thanx to all that reply

 

[Jaymes]

Probably the most interesting comments on Taoism you could find would be in the Tao Te Ching

 

[Master Vigil]

There are many good taoist sites out there. Just do a google search. Here are a couple good ones...

http://www.taoism.net/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8059_1.html

http://www.taopage.org/

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/

And many many more. Enjoy.

 

[ch'ang]

Does anyone have anything on Chang Ze

 

[Master Vigil]

Do you mean Chuang Tzu? If so, here is a good link...

http://www.galileolibrary.com/ebooks/as07/chuangtzu_toc.htm

 

[The Black Whirlwind]

chuang tzu wrote his own book after lao Tzu wrote the tao te ching, you might want to look for it.

 

[Master Vigil]

Indeed, the link I gave was the complete tranlsated version of that book. I suggest all read it.

 

[Prima]

ch'ang, it might help if we knew what in particular you need. 'Taoism' is a pretty big subject!

 

[ch'ang]

yeh sorry about the typeo i meant Chang Tzu

 

[anders]

Don't just search for Chuang Tzu, but also for Zhuang Zi (the mainland "pinyin" spelling). Then you'll find, for example, http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/cz-list.htm, and http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Zhuang_Zi. Unfortunately, some kind of permission in needed for the link to my favourite translation so far, by Burton Watson.

 

[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.