Home African Age of Reason Alchemy Americana Ancient Near East Asia Atlantis Australia Basque Baha'i Bible Book of Shadows Buddhism Celtic Christianity Classics Confucianism DNA Earth Mysteries Egyptian England Esoteric/Occult Evil Fortean Freemasonry Gothic Grimoires Hinduism I Ching Islam Icelandic Jainism Journals Judaism Legends/Sagas LGBT Miscellaneous Mormonism Native American Neopaganism/Wicca Nostradamus Oahspe Pacific Paleolithic Philosophy Piri Re'is Map Prophecy Roma Sacred Books of the East Sacred Sexuality Shakespeare Shamanism Shinto Sikhism Sky Lore Tantra Taoism Tarot Thelema Theosophy Time Tolkien UFOs Utopia Women Zoroastrianism | Confucianism I Ching Buddhism Articles: Traditional Chinese Religion OCRT: Taoism Buy CD-ROM Buy books about Taoism These are principal texts of Taoism. Taoism, along with Confucianism and Buddhism was one of the principal religions of feudal China. Tao-te Ching J. Legge tr. 66,099 bytes This translation is excerpted from Volume 39 of the Sacred Books of the East. The Tao te Ching is one of the most widely read sacred texts, due to its simplicity and depth. It appeal is universal, and has been found relevant by Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and even Quantum Physicists. Attributed to Lao-tzu, (580-500 B.C.), it may predate him by several centuries. The earliest known manuscripts of the Tao te Ching date to the third century B.C. Volume 39 of the Sacred Books of the East. Volume 40 of the Sacred Books of the East. This is a detailed etext of volume one and two of the Sacred Books of the East Taoist translations by James Legge. Both of these volumes were published in 1891. The first volume contains Lao-tzu's Tao te Ching and the first half of the Writings of Chuang-tzu, including the notes and introductory material. The second volume completes the Writings of Chuang-tzu, and includes several other Taoist texts, including the Tai Shang Tractate. Volume two also includes a detailed index for both volumes. The Canon of Reason and Virtue (Lao-tze's Tao Teh King) Chinese and English; Translated by D.T. Suzuki & Paul Carus [1913] This is another translation of the Tao te Ching. This etext includes the complete Chinese text of the Tao te Ching as embedded graphics. Taoist Teachings Translated from the Book of Lieh-Tzü by Lionel Giles [1912]. Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure translated by Anton Forke [1912] T'ai Shang Kan-Ying P'ien, by Teitaro Suzuki and Paul Carus. [1906]. Yin Chih Wen, The Tract of the Quiet Way by Teitaro Suzuki and Paul Carus. [1906]. Taoist Texts, by Frederic Henry Balfour [1884]. Tao, The Great Luminant Essays from the Huai Nan Tzu, by Evan S. Morgan [1933] Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei By Dwight Goddard and Henri Borel [1919] Another, very lucid translation of the Tao te Ching by the author of A Buddhist Bible. Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei (2nd ed.) By Dwight Goddard and Henri Borel [1939] The second edition of this book (see above), with a very different translation of the text and some additional material. | | |
| | Taoism |
| search powered by Sponsored Links |
| |