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Written during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, and composed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao Te Ching is surely the most terse and economical of the world’s great religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters it elucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Way–an idea that in its ethical, practical, and spiritual dimensions has become essential to the life of China’s enormously powerful civilization. In the process of this elucidation, Lao-tzu both clarifies and deepens those central religious mysteries around which our life on earth revolves.

Translation of the Ma Wang Tui Manuscripts by D. C. Lau

ISBN-13: 9780679433163

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Date: 10-18-1994

Pages: 168

Product Dimensions: 5.17(w) x 8.32(h) x 0.58(d)

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Lao Tzu (also Laozi) was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the reputed author of Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism.

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Tao Te Ching

By Lao Tzu

Everyman's Library

Copyright © 1994 Lao Tzu
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0679433163


Chapter One


VERSE 1


A way that can be walked
    is not The Way
A name that can be named
    is not The Name<

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Book 13
Book 243
List of Passages for Comparison 89
Appendices
1 The Problem of Authorship 90
2 The Nature of the Work 104
Chronological Table 115
Glossary 116
Notes 126