Taoism ( Daoism ) is a philosophy and later also developed into a religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching ( Dào Dé Jīng ; ascribed to Laozi ) and the Zhuangzi ( partly ascribed to Zhuangzi ).

** Tao Te Ching, attributed to Laozi.

* Wengu text database ( Classic of Poetry, Analects of Confucius, Tao Te Ching, and I Ching, in Chinese and translations )

* Chinese Classics ( James Legge's translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Works of Mencius and the Tao Te Ching )

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

* Tao Te Ching Pronunciation Guide, True Tao

The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing ( 道德經: 道 dào " way "; 德 dé " virtue "; 經 jīng " classic " or " book ") also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text.

The Wade – Giles romanization " Tao Te Ching " dates back to early English transliterations in the late 19th century ; its influence can be seen in words and phrases that have become well-established in English.

" Tao Te Ching ", Calligraphy by Gia-Fu Feng

The received Tao Te Ching is a short text of around 5, 000 Chinese characters in 81 brief chapters or sections ().

38 – 81 ), which may have been edited together into the received text, possibly reversed from an original " Te Tao Ching ".

The Tao Te Ching is ascribed to Laozi, whose historical existence has been a matter of scholastic debate.

Generations of scholars have debated the historicity of Laozi and the dating of the Tao Te Ching.

Some Western scholars have expressed doubts over Laozi's historical existence, claiming that the Tao Te Ching is actually a collection of the work of various authors.

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

Wang Bi (, 226 – 249 AD ) was a famous Three Kingdoms period philosopher and commentator on the Tao Te Ching ( tr.

They included more than 50 partial and complete " Tao Te Ching " manuscripts.

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 ".

The Guodian Chu Slips comprise about 800 slips of bamboo with a total of over 13, 000 characters, about 2, 000 of which correspond with the Tao Te Ching, including 14 previously unknown verses.

Several recent Tao Te Ching translations ( e. g., Lau 1989, Henricks 1989, Mair 1990, Henricks 2000, Allan and Williams 2000, and Roberts 2004 ) utilize these two versions, sometimes with the verses reordered to synthesize the new finds.

The Tao Te Ching was originally written in zhuànshū calligraphy style.

These famous first lines of the Tao Te Ching state that the Tao is ineffable, i. e., the Tao is nameless, goes beyond distinctions, and transcends language.

It has two parts, the Tao Ching ( 道經 ; chaps.

The Tao Te Ching has been translated into Western languages over 250 times, mostly to English, German, and French.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

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.

To attain naturalness, one has to identify with the Tao ; this involves freeing oneself from selfishness and desire, and appreciating simplicity.

The earliest texts of the Tao Te Ching that have been excavated-the Guodian bamboo slips-date back to the late 4th century BC .< ref name = stanford > Throughout the history of religious Taoism, the Tao Te Ching has been used as a ritual text.

He has written popular books on the implications of science, notably The Tao of Physics, subtitled An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism.

The notion of a universal principle of natural order is by no means unique to the Vedas, and Ṛta has been compared to similar ideas in other cultures, such as Ma ' at in Ancient Egyptian religion, Moira and the Logos in Greek paganism, and the Tao.

* An autobiographical fiction in which the main character, by the last parts of the book, has written the first parts and is reading some form of it to an audience Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin

The native population, who referred to themselves as " Tao Tao Tano " ( people of the land ) but were known to the early Spanish colonists as Hachamori has died out as a distinct people, though their descendants intermarried.

The Sing Tao Daily has chosen to refresh its image and editorial content by positioning itself as the newspaper of choice for the middle class, who demand a more high-brow content.

The Sing Tao has a pro-government history.

The Sing Tao Daily has embarked upon many programmes to lift its brand positioning and stimulate its circulation and readership.

* The Sing Tao Daily has the largest regional coverage among global Chinese communities ( e. g. in North America ) and also has the second largest global coverage in the world, following the International Herald Tribune.

The publication's ownership had switched from Albert Yeung's Emperor Group to Charles Ho Tsu Kwok's ( 何柱國 )' s Global China Group Holdings Limited, which has its influence over several local newspapers, such as Sing Tao Daily and Hong Kong Standard ( 英文虎報 ).

It has been suggested that the book The Old Canon, the book of the Way, the Tao Te Ching, has talismanic properties in the narrative.

" The word Tao has no exact English translation, but it relates most closely to the Western idea of wholeness, to the unknowable unity of the divine.

The Chinese word Tao has an etymological relationship to the Sanskrit root sound " da ", which means " to divide something whole into parts ".

The Tao Te Ching has been seen as a nondualist text ; from that perspective, the term " Tao " could be interpreted as a name for the Ultimate Reality ( which, as the Tao Te Ching itself notes, is not the reality itself ).