The Tao Te Ching (traditional Chinese: 道德經; simplified Chinese: 道德经) or Laozi is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism traditionally credited...
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Laozi (section Tao Te Ching)
ways, was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese philosopher, author of the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Taoism along with the Zhuangzi. Laozi is a...
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'doctrine' or 'principle'. In the Tao Te Ching, the semi-legendary ancient philosopher Laozi explains that the Tao is not a name for a thing, but the...
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Three Treasures (Taoism) (redirect from Three jewels of the tao)
sānbǎo; Wade–Giles: san-pao) are basic virtues in Taoism. Although the Tao Te Ching originally used sanbao to mean "compassion", "frugality", and "humility"...
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Mawangdui Silk Texts (section Tao Te Ching)
earliest attested manuscripts of existing texts (such as the I Ching), two copies of the Tao Te Ching, a copy of Zhan Guo Ce, works by Gan De and Shi Shen, and...
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Taoist meditation (section Tao Te Ching)
eventually became the standard Tao Te Ching interpretation. Richard Wilhelm said Wang Bi's commentary changed the Tao Te Ching "from a compendiary of magical...
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the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi Inner Chapters accompanied by black-and-white photographs by Jane English in the books Lao Tsu / Tao Te Ching, first...
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Chinese creation myths (section Tao Te Ching)
binary (yin and yang or Heaven and Earth). Girardot reasons that Tao Te Ching evokes the Tao as "a cosmic principle of the beginnings would seem to make little...
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Straw dog (section Tao Te Ching)
figuratively to refer to anything discarded after use. Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching makes use of the phrase chu gou (芻狗) to compare living beings to straw...
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