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Great Ideas: Tao Te Ching by TZU LAO
Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the "Tao Te Ching" is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging from political advice to common wisdom, it has also served as an inspiration to artists across the ages and throughout the world. Throughout history ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Gia-Fu Feng (Selected by); Sarah Allan (Editor); D. C. Lau (Translator); Lao-Tzu
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Tao Te Ching, roughly translated as The Book of the Way and its Virtue, is an ancient Chinese scripture. Tradition has it that the book was written around 600 BC by a sage called Lao Tzu ("Old Master", also transliterated as Laozi, Lao Tse, Laotze, and in other ways) a record-keeper in the Emperor's ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by TZU, LAO
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. T ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
Previously published as "The Way of Life," the ancient Taoist text written by philosopher Lao-Tzu in the sixth century B.C., has inspired millions of people from all different backgrounds. This beautiful edition contains Chinese characters alongside the English text and is illustrated with black and whi ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Category: Religion | Series: Classics Ser.
Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. Th ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Category: Religion | Series: Chinese Bound
One of the most influential books of all time gets a stunningly designed, dual-language edition, complete with a new translation, introduction, and editorial notes. No understanding of Chinese civilization is possible without a grasp of Taoism, the philosophy that shaped not just Chinese spirituality bu ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by LAO-TZU
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Eastern Philosophy and Taoism Ser.
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Wh ...Show more
Tao Te Ching - A New Translation by Lao Tzu
Category: Religion
The classic Taoist text freshly translated using the original Chinese script from Lao Tzu's time, and beautifully illustrated with seventeenth-century artwork. Renowned translator William Scott Wilson has rendered Lao Tzu's classic in the most authentic way possible, using both the ancient text and the ...Show more
Tao Te Ching - An Illustrated Edition by Lao Tzu
Category: Philosophy
Reflect upon the wisdom within this translation of the Tao Te Ching. Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching nods at the basic predicatment of being alive and gives advice ...Show more
Tao Te Ching (Arcturus Ornate Classics) by Lao Tzu
Category: Philosophy | Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics Ser.
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. Th ...Show more
Tao Te Ching (Illustrated) by Lao Tzu; Stephen Mitchell (translated by)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. Stephen Mitchell's translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) has sold over half a million co ...Show more
Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Lao-Tzu; John Minford (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper. The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or "Book of the Tao," is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity, and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward the Tao, or the ...Show more