num_pages: 325
description: Tao Te Ching , also commonly known as Lao Tzu , is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called Wang Pi text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963. Part Two is the fresh translation of a text which is a conflation of two manuscripts of the Lao Tzu , dating at the latest from the early Western Han and discovered at Ma Wang Tui in December 1973. The result is a text with a fuller use of particles, free from the scribal errors and editorial tampering of subsequent ages.
language: English
title: Tao Te Ching (Chinese Classics
titlecomplete: Tao Te Ching (Chinese Classics (Hong Kong).)
genres: Spirituality, Classics, China, Philosophy, Religion, Self Help, Taoism, Eastern Philosophy, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 151462
publisher: The Chinese University Press