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Dao de Jing

Written by: Roger Ames, David L. Hall
Narrated by: Robert Lowenstein
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 Composed more than 2,000 years ago, the Dao de jing (Tao Te Ching) set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal. Second only to the Bible, this timeless classic is one of the world's most revered inspirational books. Daoism offers a comprehensive view of experience grounded in a full understanding of the wonders hidden in the ordinary. Now in this luminous new translation, Chinese scholars Ames and Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world.©2003 Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks America Eastern Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Religious Studies Taoism Progression Fantasy
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Indespensible classic, relatively weak translation

Firstly, the newly discovered texts are only a few strips and add very little to the text overall.
This translation is completely inaccessable, it constantly uses needlessly obscure language that only those with degrees in philosophy will recognize.
If you listen extremely closely you can get a lot out of this text even with the pretensious translation. I will probably have to reread a different translation to get the full value.

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Great rendition but narrator can’t /doesn’t even try to pronounce Mandarin correctly.

This is the best edition of the Daòdé jīng I’ve come across, but why did they settle on a narration that doesn’t pronounce the Mandarin correctly? It’s not just the tones, but the phonemes were totally anglicized. Overall the content is great, but the narration sucks whenever Mandarin is needed.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.

I wanted a modern reading of the Dao De Jing. I got a reading of it that is so over-analysed that only the author pretends to know what he's saying. The title should be Dao De Jing: The Philosophy major trying to show you how "useful" his degree is by regurgitating the entire contents of a thesaurus in efforts to outsmart you edition.

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