Lao Tzu :: Sages

Das Tao Te King von Lao Tse - 91 translations in many different languages, including 35 in English.
Meta Description: [ Sammlung des Tao Te King von Lao Tse - Collection of the Tao Te King of Lao Tse ]

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (100+ translations...) - 100+ translations of chapter 1.
Meta Description: [ 100 translations of the Tao Te Ching (chapter 1). ]

About the Tao - Translations and commentaries on some chapters including Chinese characters for each.

Book of the Forest Path - A new rendition of the Tao Te Ching by Crispin Sartwell. This site also includes Crispin's reviews of other translations.

Center Tao: Tao Te Ching Commentary - Translation and commentary by Carl Abbott, founder of Center Tao in Santa Cruz, California.

Chad Hansen's Tao Te Ching - Chad Hansen's translation of the Tao Te Ching

Comments on the Tao Te Ching - Translational information and comparison, based on D. C. Lau's translation.

Crowley's Tao Teh King - Translation and personal introduction by Aleister Crowley.

Dao De Jing - Tao Te Ching - Interpolation by Tormod Kinnes, based on the English versions of Lin Yutang, Arthur Waley and Wing-tsit Chan.
Meta Description: [ A complete version rooted in eminent translations of Drs. Lin Yutang, Arthur Waley, and Wing-tsit Chan. Separate comments. ]

Dao De Jing - The Way and its Power - Chinese text based on the Wang Bi version. English: Arthur Waley and D. C. Lau. French: Stanislas Julien. German: Richard Wilhelm.
Meta Description: [ Read the Daode jing, attributed to Laozi, the great and mysterious thinker of early China. In chinese with links on definitions and in some western language translations. / Lire le Daode jing, de Lao-tseu, fameux recueil d'aphorismes obscurs et intraduisibles. ]

Dao Is Open - Translations with commentaries by Nina Correa. Site also includes the Seal Script characters used in the Guodian Laozi with English definitions, and a Taoist discussion forum.
Meta Description: [ A new book Your Dao De Jing is now available, which enables anyone to translate the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) directly from Chinese. A discussion forum. Meditation techniques. Links to Daoist (Taoist) and Chinese internet sites. ]

Daoism in Brief: Laozi and the Dao De Jing - Personal opinions on the text and its author by Maury R. Merkin.
Meta Description: [ A brief and informal introduction to the 'Dao De Jing' [often spelled 'Tao Teh Ching'] and its author, Lao Zi [Laotze], with short quotations to illustrate its central concepts and an accompanying glossary. ]

404 Daoist Reflections - Sister Nona (a Daoist Nun) uses the Dao De Jing the elements of Liu I-ming's explication thereof, to create courses in spiritual and ethical development.

Daosim Depot - Over a dozen different translations.

Daozang - Transcription of Siji Tzu's oral rendition to his students.
Meta Description: [ Documents of Philosophical Daoism ]

Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Reflections on the Tao Te Ching, an essay by Mike Carson.

Heidegger and the Tao Te Ching - A Brief Comparison of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time with Peter Merel's translation by David York.

Hermetica.info - An archive of texts translated by Bradford Hatcher.

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching - Translation by A. S. Kline.
Meta Description: [ Tao Te Ching - A new translation of the Chinese Taoist Classic. ]

Laozi - An article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Alan Chan of the National University of Singapore on the Dao De Jing: its origins, various ancient texts and commentaries.

Laozi (Lao Tzu) - Commentaries on the Dao De Jing by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping, including translations of some chapters.

Laozi Daodejing - English and German translations featuring Chinese text as GIFs. Each character is linked to a dictionary and includes Seal Script characters.
Meta Description: [ Daodejing in Langzeichen - Siegelschriftzeichen - Pinyinumschrift - ]

Laozi Debate - A 1998 article in Archeology magazine by Spencer P.M. Harrington on the discovery of the Guodian text of the Dao De Jing.
Meta Description: [ The discovery of the oldest version of a seminal Daoist text in China has provoked scholarly debate about the origins of the Daoist and Confucian traditions. ]

404 Light of Isis - by Isis with a metaphysical slant.
Meta Description: [ The Mysteries of the Tarot, Crowley, Magick and Egypt revealed at The Book of THOTH ]

New Equations Tao Te Ching - By Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey, who have grouped the chapters into nine personality types.

o Te Ching: Classics of Integrity and the Way - James Legge's version.

Pathless path, nameless name - A brief look at translation difficulties with the Dao De Jing.
Meta Description: [ The inherent difficulties in translating an ancient Chinese book such as the Laozi (Lao-tzu). ]

500 Peter Merel's Tao Teh Ching - Peter Merel's Interpolation of the Tao Te Ching

Stan Rosenthal's Tao Teh Ching - Introduction and translation by Rosenthal.

Tao Te Ching - A modern, humorous and loosely phrased translation by Ron Hogan.

Tao Te Ching - Translation by Steven Mitchell.

Tao Te Ching - Translation with some commentary by Dr. Edwin Sha from the perspective of a Buddhist.

500 Tao Te Ching - by Andre Gauthier with images by Penny Downes.

Tao Te Ching - A new Translation by Akrishi - Contains an English translation as well as Chinese characters for each chapter.
Meta Description: [ A basic and direct word by word translation of the ancient Chinese classic on the Way and its gaining by Akrishi ]

Tao Te Ching - Book of Wisdom - Hilmar Klaus provides translations of the Dao De Jing in German and English. He also includes the Chinese characters for the Guodian, Mawangdui and Wang Bi versions as well as the PinYin spellings.
Meta Description: [ A new system of multi-translations of Daodejing = Tao Te Ching (Tao Te King), Book of Wisdom, by Laozi = Lao Tzu (Laotse), / ein neues System mehrfacher Übersetzungen des Tao Te King von Laotse, Buch der Weisheit, verbatim / wortgetreu, analogous / sinngemäß, poetic / poetisch (German), deep a... ]

Tao Te Ching - Tattered Tree Trunk - Translation by David Lindauer.
Meta Description: [ This Tao Te Ching translation focuses on trying to maintain the sense of the original without fanciful thinking ]

Tao Te Ching Interpreted Succinctly - Based on a translation by Ursula Le Guin, Anthony Judge presents one-line synopses for each chapter. Site also contains extensive commentaries.
Meta Description: [ Experiment in presenting the 81 insights of the Chinese Tao Te Ching as single phrases in two alternative orders. ]

Tao Te Ching: Classics of Integrity and the Way - A rendition by Douglas Allchin including photographs for each chapter.

Taoism Information Page - Several on-line translations of the classic of the way.

Tau Teh Ching - Line by line comparisons of 24 translations of the Tao Te Ching.

Terebess Asia Online - Over 30 translations, including some well-known authors and some new ones.

The Authorship of the Tao Te Ching - John J. Emerson explores the possibilities of authorship based on the theories of other philosophers of the time as well as historical events.

The Cow Te Ching (The Cow and its Characteristics) - Tongue-in-cheek interpretation by Kevin Solway David Quinn. Fun for a laugh.

The Flow and Power of Good - The first 10 chapters translated and adapted by Sonja Elen Kisa.

The Tao and the Te - Fundamentals of Taoism and Mind in General explores the connection of the Tao Te Ching to neurological patterns in the brain, by C. J. Lofting.

The Tao of Systems - Ancient Systems Thinking in China and Its Application in Chinese Life by Yi Lin. An essay on scientific applications of the Tao Te Ching to the systematic wholeness of life.

The Tao Te Ching - Using the Feng/English version, Masahito Koishikawa compares chapters of the Tao Te Ching with passages from the Bible.

The Tao Te Ching - A new, modernized, translation - Sorensen's humorous transliteration which encorporates computer-ese, based loosely on the English translation by Steven Mitchell.

404 The Theosophy of the Tao Te Ching - An article written for Quest Magazine in which Richard W. Brooks comments on particular sections of various translations.

500 The Way of the Universe - Translated by John Louis Albert Trottier.

Way and Power Book - By Sanderson Beck, as included in the Wisdom Bible.

Welcome The Tao Te Ching - A work in progress by Darkchilde, including commentaries on various English translations.

Zhongwen - Rick Harbaugh's Chinese text of the Tao Te Ching, hyperlinked to definitions of Chinese characters and to an English translation.
Meta Description: [ Taoism classic Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) online. Hyperlinked to definitions of Chinese characters and to English translation. ]