With and a love of Eastern ways from his mother’s English/Irish/Welsh family background, he gained a familiarity with and a love of British
degree.įrom his father –- a scholar and collector of Asian art, and a close friend of the landscape painter Chiura Obata –- he gained a familiarity Washington, from which he graduated with a B.A. Of Oregon in Eugene, the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art) in Portland, and The Evergreen State College in Olympia, He attended Sylvan School, West Sylvan Middle School, Benson Polytechnic, Lincoln High School (the latter two in Portland), the University He has studied architecture, music, fine arts, graphic design, and AsianĬulture –- including Japanese Tea Ceremony (third certificate level), Japanese fine-pruning methods (two years of apprenticeship), and theĬomparatively esoteric martial-art form of T’ai Chi Ch’uan (four years of instruction, including a year The descendant of two family lines of artists, engineers, and explorers, Benjamin Hoff has been a writer, an investigative photojournalist,Ī tree pruner, a songwriter, and a recording musician and singer. To be one of the 75 books featured in the house’s printed promotion and public displays. In 2010, as part of the publisher’s 75th anniversary celebration, Penguin Books selected The Tao of Pooh
It is the only book on Opal Whiteley popularly acknowledged as a “cult classic.” Interest in Opal Whiteley, won an American Book Award. The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, the book most often credited with the current worldwide With a selection of Benjamin Hoff’s lyrical color landscape photographs, this is a unique, and uniquely accessible, And his chapter notes shed new light on the author’s surprisingly Than the long-alleged author, the “Old Master” of legend, Lao-tzu. He also makes the provocativeĬlaim-and demonstrates by revealing clues in the text-that the Tao Te Ching’s author was a young nobleman hiding his identity, rather Hoff points out in his chapter notes the many incidents of meddling and muddling that have been made over theĬenturies by scholars and copyists, and he corrects the mistakes and removes such tampering from the text. The Eternal Tao Te Ching is the first translation to employ the meanings of the pre-writing brush characters in use 2,400 yearsĪgo, when the classic was written, rather than relying on the often-different meanings of the more modern brush characters, as other
From Benjamin Hoff, author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, comes The Eternal Tao TeĬhing (Abrams DecemUS $24.99 Hardcover), a new translation of the Chinese philosophical classic, the Tao Te Ching.
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