Translations of daodejing?
I would like to be able to read daodejing in chinese, but for now, my chinese is not really good, so Ill have to settle with translation work.
What translations do you use, or can you recommend?
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Ursula K. Le Guin has a translation out that I like very much. She’s also a student of the Tao and I feel like that makes it more personal: not just a translation exercise, if you know what I mean.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/lao-tzu-the-tao-te-ching
Sounds very interesting!
I gleedily like this video for english, because it is less about precise translation, and more about the author conveying the content in a way that feels truthful to them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTr4YK4hLO8&t=6
And Im also using the norwegian translation "Boka om vegen og dygda" by Ole Bjørn Rongen, which documents the translation process well.