Tao Te Ching

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道德經 (The Tao Te Ching)
by Laozi

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The Tao Te Ching (Wade), Daodejing (pinyin), or Classic of the Way and Its Virtue or Power (道德經)—also known as the the Laozi (老子), the Sutra of the Way and Its Virtue or Power (道德真經, Daode Zhenjing), or the 5000-Character Classic (五千文, Wuqian Wen) is a Chinese classic text traditionally ascribed to a 6th-century sage named Laozi or the "Old Master". The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.

30740道德經 (The Tao Te Ching) — Laozi

English-language translations of 道德經 include:

The Speculations of Metaphysics, Polity, and Morality (1868), trans. by John Chalmers (transcription project)
The Tâo Teh King (1891), part of Vol. V of The Sacred Books of China, translated by James Legge
The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ (1905), excerpted from the Tao Te Ching, translated by Lionel Giles
The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion (1905) by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, Chicago, Theosophical Book Concern
"Lao Tzŭ-Sayings" (1922), excerpted from the Tao Te Ching, in the Gems of Chinese Literature compiled and translated by Herbert Allen Giles
Tao Te Ching, translated by Wikisource