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Re:Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989) by throwaway626 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:12AM (#38094527)
She had the humility to admit she knew little about ancient Chinese and the courage to go ahead and venture a translation anyway, striving to touch something deeper than language.

Her success is extremely laudable for this reason.

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Re:Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989) by throwaway626 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:56AM (#38097579)
I don’t judge scholarly translations by their poetics, so perhaps you shouldn’t judge poetic interpretations by their scholarly merit.

The world is big enough for both.

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Re:Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989) by Podgajski on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:31AM (#38096553)
She understood that translating. The Dao is not so much about knowing Chinese, but knowing the Dao.

The most important part of translating the Dao De Ching is to be as close as possible to understanding Daoism as one can.

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