They included two nearly complete copies of the text, referred to as Text A () and Text B (), both of which reverse the traditional ordering and put the Te Ching section before the Tao Ching, which is why the Henricks translation of them is named " Te-Tao Ching ".

Tao () literally means " way ", but can also be interpreted as road, channel, path, doctrine, or line.

The famous opening lines of the Tao Te Ching are: 道可道非常道 ()

Examples of this are Taiwanese politicians Wang Chien-shien () and Yu Shyi-kun (), ex-PRC Premier Zhu Rongji () and Taiwanese singer David Tao ().

He believed that the Tao () of Tian () is expressed in principle or li (), but that it is sheathed in matter or qi ().

The Sing Tao Daily () is Hong Kong's second largest Chinese language newspaper.

Sing Tao News Corporation Limited () is a Hong Kong listed company.

Terence " Terry " Chi-Shen Tao FRS () ( born 17 July 1975, Adelaide ), is an Australian mathematician working in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, ergodic theory, random matrix theory, and analytic number theory.

His father, Billy Tao () is a pediatrician, and his mother is a physics and mathematics graduate from the University of Hong Kong, formerly a secondary school teacher of mathematics in Hong Kong.

The Sing Tao Daily (), or Sing Tao () for short, is one of a few Chinese language newspapers in Canada.

Tien-te Sheng-chiao () is a religious group that is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien-t ' ien Tao ) sects The Way of Former Heaven sects are syncretic religious groups that aspire to unify Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and other religions.

Headline Daily () was launched on July 12, 2005 by Sing Tao Newspaper Group Limited and became the second free Chinese newspaper published officially in Hong Kong ( Metropolis Daily ( TC: 都市日報 Pinyin: Dū Shì Rì Bào ) being the first ).

As chairman of Hokkien Huay Kuan ( Hokkien clan association ) () he developed many schools under the auspices of the association: Kong Hwa School in Guillemard, Tao Nan School in Marine Parade, Nan Chiau School in River Valley and Chongfu Primary School in Yishun.

Its recipients to date are Ian Agol, Manindra Agrawal, Yves Benoist, Manjul Bhargava, Danny Calegari, Alain Connes, Nils Dencker, Alex Eskin, David Gabai, Ben Green, Christopher Hacon, Richard Hamilton, Michael Harris, Jeremy Kahn, Laurent Lafforgue, Gérard Laumon, Vladimir Markovic, James McKernan, Ngô Bảo Châu, Jonathan Pila, Jean-François Quint, Oded Schramm, Stanislav Smirnov, Terence Tao, Clifford Taubes, Richard Taylor, Claire Voisin, Jean-Loup Waldspurger, Andrew Wiles, and Edward Witten.

This is because all opposites are manifestations of the single Tao, and are therefore not independent from one another, but rather a variation of the same unifying force throughout all of nature.

Many more English translations are titled Tao Te Ching than Dao De Jing, making the former spelling more familiar to native speakers.

Among the many transmitted editions of the Tao Te Ching text, the three primary ones are named after early commentaries.

Tao Te Ching scholarship has lately advanced from archeological discoveries of manuscripts, some of which are older than any of the received texts.

Critics of these versions, such as Taoism scholar Eugene Eoyang, claim that translators like Stephen Mitchell produce readings of the Tao Te Ching that deviate from the text and are incompatible with the history of Chinese thought.

Furthermore, many of the words that the Tao Te Ching uses are deliberately vague and ambiguous.

In the book " Golden Rules of Business Success " written by Fan Li ( or Tao Zhu Gong ) during the Spring and Autumn Period, there are some parts mentioning the art of beekeeping and the importance of the quality of the wooden box for bee keeping that can affect the quality of its honey.

It could be concluded from an emanationism point of view, that all actions and creations by a deity are simply flows of divine energy ( the flowing Tao in conjunction with qi is often seen as a river ; Dharma ( Buddhism ) the law of nature discovered by Buddha has no beginning or end.

Some old FYIs are still interesting, e. g., the Internet User's Glossary RFC 1983 ( FYI 18 ), and The Tao of IETF RFC 4677 ( FYI 17 ).

In speech, Tao and Taoism are often pronounced and, reading the Chinese unaspirated lenis (" weak ") as the English voiceless stop consonant.

Traditional conceptions of Tao are not to be confused with the Western concepts of theism.

Ancient commentaries on the Tao Te Ching are important texts in their own right.

While the Tao Te Ching is most famous, there are many other important texts in traditional Taoism including Mohism.

The terms Tao and De are religious and philosophical terms shared between Taoism and Confucianism.

Vegetarian restaurants are commonplace with a wide variety of dishes, mainly due to the influence of Buddhism and other syncretistic religions like I-Kuan Tao.

Lewis, used the Tao to describe " the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, the kind of thing the universe is and the kind of things we are.

Hence ( its way ) is near to ( that of ) the Tao " and " There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it — for there is nothing ( so effectual ) for which it can be changed.

* Taoist temples and monasteries are called guan or daoguan ( 道观, literally " place of contemplation of the Tao ") in Chinese, guan being the shortened version of daoguan.

The Amis, Saisiat, Tao and Kavalan are all traditionally Eastern Plains cultures.

Together these principles are regarded as the fundamental nature of the cosmos, the criterion for differentiating right from wrong, and are held to be the highest manifestation of the Tao, or Buddhist Dharma.

In 2006, a 40-episodes wuxia TV series named ' Li Hou Zhu yu Zhao Kuang Yin ' or ' Li Hou Zhu and Zhao Kuang Yin ' was made, with main stars Nicky Wu ( as Li Houzhu ), Huang Wen Hao ( as Emperor Taizu of Song ) and Liu Tao ( as Empress Zhou, wife of Li Houzhu ).

In recent years several scholars have made new translations of the Tao Te Ching that are based on the silk text and ignore the received texts entirely or almost entirely.

So Tao is the wisdom of the divine made manifest in nature and in my individual life.

Clan Lord is the Macintosh's first massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ), made by Delta Tao Software.

Headquartered in the May Tao Mountains to the north-east, the division was made up of the 274th and 275th Regiments under the command of Senior Colonel Nguyen The Truyen.

Without the Tao, no value judgments can be made at all, and modern attempts to do away with some parts of traditional morality for some " rational " reason always proceed by arbitrarily selecting one part of the Tao and using it as grounds to debunk the others.

Tao also made contributions to the study of the Erdős – Straus conjecture in 2011 by showing that the number of solutions to the Erdős – Straus equation increases polylogarithmically as n tends to infinity.

This year, Café de Coral made an investment in the Tao Heung Group, a smaller restaurant group that operates 11 brands all over China and Hong Kong.

* Zhang Tianran ( 張天然 ), made the name I-Kuan Tao official, was the 18th patriarch.

In 768, after Li Huaixian was assassinated by his officers Zhu Xicai, Zhu Ci, and Zhu Ci's brother Zhu Tao, Emperor Daizong made an attempt to take back control of Lulong Circuit ( 盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing ), which Li Huaixian had governed.

In Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Jack Rudolph and Simon Stiles give viola prodigy Kim Tao a prairie oyster made up of brandy, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, tomato, bitters, pepper and a raw egg yolk to help sober her up, only to discover later that the prairie oyster is in fact used as a hangover cure.

The relatively short length of the reign of Seqenenre Tao did not allow for the construction of many monumental structures, but it is known that he built a new palace made of mud brick at Deir el-Ballas.

Also in 913, Wu made two attempts to attack and capture Yijin, commanded by Li Tao ( 李濤 ) in one operation and Hua Qian ( 花虔 ) and Wo Xin ( 渦信 ) in the other.

He made his debut in first level game in Lai Sun's FA Cup match against Sing Tao on 6 April 1990.

Liu Ling, Ruan Ji, Ruan Xian, Xiang Xiu, Wang Rong and Shan Tao were the other six sages who made up the group, besides Xi Kang, who was especially close to Ruan Ji ; their relationship was described as " stronger than metal and fragrant as orchids ".