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Great Ideas: Tao Te Ching by TZU LAO
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
I Am Goat - 2024 Wall Calendar by Kevin Horan (Photographer); Hypatia of Alexandria (Text by); Aristotle; Lao Tzu (Text by); Cicero (Text by); Amber Lotus Publishing
Category: Calendars
Goats have captured our imaginations for thousands of years. They're clever, mischievous, and amazingly humanlike. This wall calendar puts goats in the spotlight as photographer Kevin Horan presents them in a unique and compelling way. Paired with quotes from some of history's great thinkers, the black- ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Category: Other Stationery | 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: Health and Wellbeing
Written some 2,500 years ago, the TAO TE CHING is the most influential Chinese book of all time. The title can be translated as The Book of the Way and Virtue and its verses are no less than an attempt to sum up the cosmos and human beings’ place within it. This colourful collector’s edition is a must h ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (tr from Chinese John H McDonald)
Category: Science
An illustrated collector's edition of one of the most influential Chinese books. First published approx 500 BC; this edition 2009.
Tao Te Ching by TZU, LAO
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Written during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, and composed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao Te Ching is surely the most terse and economical of the world's great religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters it elucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Way-an idea that in its ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu; Arthur Waley (translator)
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane m ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Category: Philosophy and 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 Gia-Fu Feng (Selected by); Sarah Allan (Editor); D. C. Lau (Translator); Lao-Tzu
Category: Fiction | 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 LAO-TZU
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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 by Lao Tzu
Category: Philosophy and 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