Tao: the watercourse wayDrawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts.--Publisher description. |
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User Review - bkinetic - LibraryThingI have been reading different translations of the Tao Te Ching and found some of the chapters difficult to understand. Alan Watts has a Western perspective on the material, so in this book he was able ... Read full review
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User Review - gbill - LibraryThingPublished posthumously a couple years after Watts’ death in 1973 at the age of 58, and perhaps a little incomplete as a result, this is nevertheless one of the better and more readable descriptions of ... Read full review
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