道德經 Tao Te Ching
老子's eighty-one chapters (the Daodejing), in 江希張's 1919 vernacular commentary edition — his 字解, 章解 and 演說 beside every line.
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同德典籍
Tong De Classics
Classical Chinese texts read line by line — keeping the indigenous Chinese commentary and the textual-variant record beside every English rendering, so a translation can be checked against the text rather than taken on trust.
莊子 Zhuangzi
The 逍遙遊 opening and two of the best-known closes, with 郭象's 註, 成玄英's 疏 and the 經典釋文 variant record.
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六祖壇經 Platform Sutra
慧能's 行由品 — the verse contest and the flight south, from the CBETA 宗寶本.
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論語 Analects
孔子 and his disciples, book by book: the Chinese checked against two woodblock editions, with James Legge's English and our own preliminary translation.
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