The Classic of the Way and Virtue
Subtitle: A New Translation of the "Tao-te ching" of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: May 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780231105804
Subjects: Taoism; Literary Collections; Religion - World Religions; Religion; East Asia, Far East; Asia - General; History / Asia; Asian; Asian - Chinese
First sentence: The Sayings of the Old Master (Laozi), or Classic of the Way and Virtue (Daode jing), consist of eighty-one short aphoristic sections, that, though self-contained, often refer to each other and as a whole present a consistent and integrated view of how the sage rules the world in accordance with the spontaneous way of the Natural (ziran zhi dao).