Tao Te Ching

by Laozi; Addiss, Stephen; Lombardo, Stanley; Watson, Burton

• ISBN13: 9780872202320
• ISBN10: 0872202321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
	p. 3
	p. 43
List of Passages for Comparison	p. 89
Appendices
The Problem of Authorship	p. 90
The Nature of the Work	p. 104
Chronological Table	p. 115
Glossary	p. 116
Notes	p. 126
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