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mystical, and spiritual subjects.   RCavallaro: English Tao Te
Ching  To: alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.new
age,alt.consciousness.mysticism From:
tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Subject: RCavallaro:
English Tao Te Ching (was something similar) Date: 27 Jul 1996
13:03:35 -0700  [from alt.philosophy.taoism: raffael@tiac.net
(Raffael Cavallaro)]  Although one would like a modern english
translation of the Tao Te Ching to be   1. easy to read and 2.
coherent in style and philosophy  the latter assumes that the
original was itself coherent in style and philosophy. Such is
(for better or worse) not the case. All translations which take
as their starting point a particular view of Taoism must distort
the original text in order to make it conform to their
interpretation. Seen in this light, the best recent translation
if probably that of the renowned sinologist, Victor Mair, which
is based on the most ancient version of the text kn