Lao-Tze's Tao-Teh-King; Chinese-English: With Transliteration, and Notes By Paul Carus (Classic Reprint)

He was aC hinese who lived in the sixth century B.C., and left to the world the Tao-T eh-K ing, a small book on Reason and Virtue, which not only exercised a powerful influence upon his countrymen but is also worthy to be compared with the sacred scriptures of theB uddhists and theN ew Testament. It is on account of the similarities which, in spite of many differences, obtain between the teachings of Lao-T ze and those of Buddha and Christ that the Tao-T ehK ing is an indispensable book ;and no one who is interested in religion can afford to leave it unread. he date of Lao-T ze sbirth is the third year of theE mperor Ting-wang of the Cho dynasty, which corresponds to the year 604 B. C. Lao-T ze sfamily name, (L i), means Plumtree. His proper name, (E r), means Ear. His appellation was -fj (P oY ang), viz., Count of the iT he diphthong ao sounds like ow ia how, thee inT ze resembles the short uin but. On pronunciation see page 48. 2M art. Martin sfisi. Sinica, p. 133 and Duhalde I., p. 248, 3O ther transcriptions are i r, Err, andR
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