Lao-Tzu and the Tao-Te-Ching

by Livia Kohn, Michael LaFargue (Editor)

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Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.

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Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching presents a coherent collection of materials on the ancient Chinese classic and its author, describing traditional and modern Western Interpretations. Written and edited by recognized international specialists in the field, this book brings Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching together to present current scholarship on their history and interpretation.

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Lao-tzu cultivated Tao and its virtue. He taught that one should efface oneself and be without fame in the world. He lived under the Chou dynasty. After a long time he realized that the dynasty was declining. He decided to leave. When he reached the western frontier, Yin Hsi, the guardian of the pass, said: "You wan to withdraw forever: Please write down your thoughts for me." Thereupon Lao-tzu wrote a book in two sections dealing with the Tao and its virtue (the Tao-te-ching). It had more than five thousand words. Then he left, and nobody knows what became of him. --Shih-chi

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Thus runs Ssu-ma Ch'ien's description of Lao-tzu writing the Tao-te-ching, a text so closely associated with him that it has been called the Lao-tzu for much of Chinese history.

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