{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/ltw2/index.htm","path":"tao/ltw2/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/ltw2/index.htm","text":"This is the second edition of Dwight Goddard's Tao te Ching translation.\nThis is very different than the first edition.\nGoddard, the author of The Buddhist Bible,\nin the interim between the first and second edition of this book converted\nto Buddhism from Christianity.\nThe core of the book, the Tao te Ching translation, is radically\ndifferent than the first edition.\nThis is apparently the translation included\nin successive versions of the Buddhist Bible (it is not in the etext of the\nfirst edition of the Buddhist Bible at this site).\nGoddard, collaborating with Bhikshu Wai-Tao, produced a much wordier\ntranslation of this very difficult text on the second iteration; which is not\nnecessarily a bad thing....\nI have linked each chapter of the Tao te Ching\nto the first edition so readers can compare the two (Note: you will have to use\nthe 'back' button to return to this version).\nOther additions include an second introduction and a short\nsketch of the later history of Taoism.\nThe Henri Borel section is unchanged, but it is included in this etext\nfor completeness.","title":"Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei Index","type":"page"}