The Tao of Odds and Ends

Appendix.

© Barry Kavanagh 2003

Endnotes

1. Chinese terms can be transliterated either using the Wade-Giles system, or the pinyin. system. The word tao in Wade-Giles, the older system, is dao in pinyin, which is now the standard system used in China, as well as the U.S.A. I elected to use tao in the title of this book because the word became familiar in this form in the West; so familiar in fact, that dao is unrecognizable to the general Western reader.

2. This view comes from A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought by Chad Hansen. 

3. See Indian Philosophy Before the Greeks.

4. A.C.Graham, Disputers of the Tao, p218.

5. Both these translations are found, conveniently, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism by Brandon Toropov and Chad Hansen.

6. Hansen translation, click here

7. Wing-tsit Chan translation, published both in The Way of Lao Tzu and A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy.

8. Graham provides a list of twelve reversals "of priorities in chains of oppositions" in Disputers of the Tao, p.223.

9. Chan translation.

10. Hansen translation.

11. Chan translation.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Opposites are complementary rather than conflicting.

15. As argued by Hansen, click here

16. Chan translation.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Li is an ancient measurement, about one third of a mile.

20. Hansen translation.

21. Chan translation.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. A.C.Graham translation, Chuang-Tzu The Inner Chapters, p48.

25. Hansen's view in A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, p410, n.25.

26. Hansen translation, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, p274.

27. Graham translation, pp48-9.

28. Ibid., p49.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid.

31. Chan translation, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, pp187-8.

32. See Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, chapter 4.

33. Hansen translation, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, p294.

34. Graham translation, p58.

35. Chan translation, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, p189.

36. Graham translation, pp59-60.

37. See Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, pp292-3.

38. Chan translation, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, p190.

39. Martin Palmer translation, The Book of Chuang Tzu, p174.

40. See Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, p290.

41. Graham translation, p155.

42. Hansen translation, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, p287.

43. Chan translation, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, p210.

44. Hansen translation, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, p287.

45. Palmer translation, p.237.

46. See Graham, Chuang-Tzu The Inner Chapters, p117.

47. Graham quotes from his own translation, Chuang-Tzu The Inner Chapters, p222.

48. Ibid.

49. See Graham, Chuang-Tzu The Inner Chapters , p117.

50. It is quoted in part three of this appendix.

51. Palmer translation, p174.

52. Graham translation, p118.

53. Ibid., p86.

54. Ibid., p123.

55. Palmer translation, p151.

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