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"Facility in classical Chinese has never been simply a matter of recognizing large numbers of characters; rather it has been a matter of understanding fully the wealth of accumulated meanings and associations a given term has acquired over time. Some of the most common words in the classical language have the widest range of meanings. Ching - pg. 84, China's Cultural Heritage, the Ch'ing Dynasty 1644 - 1912, 1983, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado |
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Often the "Tao Te Ching" is translated into English as "The Book of Changes". But "Tao" is itself usually translated as "The Way". Is translation of anything, words, images, sounds, necessarily a corruption? The Ancient Greeks said that the Muses (art) were the children of Mnemosyne (memory) and Zeus (justice). |
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, for example, can mean (among other things) "warp" (as opposed to "woof".); "longitude"; "vessels in a body"; "to manage, plan, arrange, regulate or rule"; "to pass through, experience or suffer"; "constant or standard"; "classical canon"; and even suicide by hanging."
