I made a Dao De Jing translation page

Reading the Dao at random

Last month, I coded a webpage which presents three different translations of the Tao Te Ching side-by-side. You can access it here.

This is just a framed interface to the odd and excellent Hungarian website Terebess which lists dozens of English translations of the Tao. The page I made opens a random chapter of the Dao De Jing, in three different translations.

It looks like this:

Click here to try the tool I made.

You can also jump to a new random verse, type in a verse number you want to read, select from different translations using the three dropdown menus, or reset back to the three default translations (Derek Lin, Stephen Mitchell, and Feng & English).

You can also add a verse number to the URL, for example ?v=3, to access the third chapter.

Here are some similar tools other people have made that you might also like to try:

• Tao Te Ching by James Carmichael

• Tao Te Ching in Side By Side Viewer

• This one which compares each verse line-by-line

If you missed my post in August on Daoism, you can read it here:

Each day, I read a random verse of the Dao De Jing in six different paper translations, but when I’m travelling I use this tool so I can easily compare a few. I’ll write more about this in a future post.

Best,

Bryan