Translations of the Tao Te Ching: What Not to Read

My first premise about what a translation of the Tao Te Ching--or any work, for that matter--should be is that it indeed be a translation.  That is, someone learned the source language of the work in question, became an expert in that language and in the milieu of the work to be translated, in particular,…

The classic Taoist text freshly translated using the original Chinese script from Lao Tzu's time, and beautifully illustrated with seventeenth-century

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