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Taoism offers unique insights for the Seeker of Truth. Tonight we will be reading and discussing "The Complete Tao Te Ching," Translated by Gia-Fu Feng (馮家福 Feng Jia-fu, 1919–1985) and Jane English (1942–).

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

Gia-fu Feng was born in Shanghai on January 10, 1919, in Yuyao, Ningbo, China. He died June 12, 1985 (age 66 years), Colorado. He was educated in China, and came to the United States in 1947 to study comparative religion. He held a BA from Peking University and an MA from the Universtiy of Pennsylvania. He taught at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and directed the Stillpoint Foundation, a Taoist meditation center in Colorado. He is the author (with Jerome Kirk) of Tai Chi - A Way of Centering - & I Ching, which was published in 1970.

Jane English, whose photograps form an integral part of his translation, holds an BA from Mount Holyoke College and has received a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin for her work in high energy particle physics. She taught a course in Oriental thought and modern physics at Colorado College (with Gia-fu Feng as guest lecturer). She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1942. She is best known as co-creator of bestselling translations of the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi Inner Chapters, featuring her photography and design accompanying translation and calligraphy by Gia-Fu Feng, in the books Lao Tsu / Tao Te Ching, first published in 1972, and Chuang Tsu / Inner Chapters, first published in 1974.

Both of these books are essential when studying Taoism. We go to: Tao Te Ching with photos. For just the Text, Go Here.

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* John of AllFaith January 09, 2025

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