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Das Tao Te King von Lao Tse - Translations in many different languages, including over 80 in English.
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (100+ translations...)
About the Tao - Translations and commentaries on some chapters including Chinese characters for each.
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.
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.
Comments on the Tao Te Ching - Translational information and comparison, based on D. C. Lau's translation.
The Cow Te Ching (The Cow and its Characteristics) - Tongue-in-cheek interpretation by Kevin Solway and David Quinn. Fun for a laugh.
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.
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.
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.
Daoism in Brief: Laozi and the Dao De Jing - Personal opinions on the text and its author by Maury R. Merkin.
Daosim Depot - Over a dozen different translations.
Daozang - Transcription of Siji Tzu's oral rendition to his students.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Reflections on the Tao Te Ching, an essay by Mike Carson.
The Flow and Power of Good - The first 10 chapters translated and adapted by Sonja Elen Kisa.
Headless Tao - A simple poetic interpretation by Jim Clatfelter.
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.
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 Daodejing - English and German translations featuring Chinese text as GIFs. Each character is linked to a dictionary and includes Seal Script characters.
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.
Laozi (Lao Tzu) - Commentaries on the Dao De Jing by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping, including translations of some chapters.
Librarian's Lao-Tzu - "The Book of the Library and Its Ways" is a humorous interpolation from the viewpoint of a librarian by Andy Barnett.
New Equations Tao Te Ching - By Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey, who have grouped the chapters into nine personality types.
Pathless path, nameless name - A brief look at translation difficulties with the Dao De Jing.
Stan Rosenthal's Tao Teh Ching - Introduction and translation by Rosenthal.
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.
Tao Te Ching - A translation by J.H. McDonald, with hyperlinked table of contents.
Tao Te Ching - Translation by Steven Mitchell.
Tao Te Ching - Translation with some commentary by Dr. Edwin Sha from the perspective of a Buddhist.
Tao Te Ching - A modern, humorous and loosely phrased translation by Ron Hogan.
The Tao Te Ching - Using the Feng/English version, Masahito Koishikawa compares chapters of the Tao Te Ching with passages from the Bible.
Tao Te Ching - A new Translation by Akrishi - Includes an English translation as well as Chinese characters for each chapter.
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.
The Tao Te Ching / Tao Te Chip - Sorensen's humorous transliteration which encorporates computer-ese, based loosely on the English translation by Steven Mitchell.
Tao Te Ching - Tattered Tree Trunk - Translation by David Lindauer.
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu [Dao De Jing by Lao Zi] - J. Lau's compilation of three side-by-side translations by J. Legge, D. T. Suzuki and Paul Carus, and Dwight Goddard and Henri Borel. Also included is the Chinese text, each character with a drop-down menu with English definitions.
Tao Te Ching: Classics of Integrity and the Way - James Legge's version.
Tao Te Ching: Classics of Integrity and the Way - A rendition by Douglas Allchin including photographs for each chapter.
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.
Tao Teh King - Translation was the predecessor of one which Dwight Goddard placed into later editions of the Buddhist Bible.
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.
Way and Power Book - By Sanderson Beck, as included in the Wisdom Bible.
The Way of the Universe - Translated by John Louis Albert Trottier.
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. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.