Dao De Jing. The Teachings of the Way and Virtuous Power with parallels from the Bible and Bhagavad Gita

The classic work of ancient Chinese literature attributed to Lao Tsi, Tao De Jing is the quintessence of Taoist wisdom about a perfect man and his place in the universe. The capacity and imagery of the language of the book, the concentration of thought in a small volume led to the emergence of many interpretations of its meaning. In Russia, the number of translations of Tao De Jin is approaching ten, in English -speaking publications - to fifty, but if you take all the languages ​​of the world - only the Bible was translated and published more often. In this edition, the English poetic translation of RB was taken as a basis. Blackny. Each poem is accompanied by parallels from the Bible and (or) Bhagavad Gita, which gives the text new, often unexpected shades of sound and gives rise to a new understanding of eternal issues, in its own way refracted by each of these three greatest books of mankind. Compilation, translation, poetic transposition and comments S.N. Batonov