The Taoist Classics, Volume Four The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary

This collection of Taoist texts includes:The Taoist I Ching:The classic "Book of Change" illuminated by the commentary of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Taoist adept Liu I-ming. The first part of the book is the text ofI Chingproper with Liu's commentary. The second part is Liu's commentary on two additional sections-known as the Overall Image and the Mixed Hexagrams-added to theI Chingby earlier commentators, believed to be members of the original Confucian school. In total, the book illuminates the Taoist inner teachings as practiced in the School of Complete Reality.I Ching Mandalas:A traditional program of study that enables students of theI Chingto achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning of this great classic.I Ching Mandalaspresents diagrams as tools for whole-brain learning that help the student to visualize patterns and interrelationships among the trigrams and hexagrams of theI Ching.

Thomas Cleary holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the translator of more than fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.