Choosing which translations to use
So the first thing to figure out was: “Which translations do I even use?”
The one I was most familiar with is, I think, the oldest? The translation from 1974 by Victor Harris. There have been others since. Which should I use?
- Victor Harris (1974)
- Thomas Cleary (1993)
- William Scott Wilson (2002)
- Kenji Tokitsu (2004)
- David K. Groff (2016)
- Alexander Bennett (2018)
The blog post author exposits on their recommendations, and those justifications all seemed to be suitable for my needs.
Interestingly, that author also specifically NOT-recommended the translation by Steven Kaufman: for two reasons.
I already had a PDF of the Harris translation.
Time to get the remainder!