| − | The Tao Te Ching (Chinese: 道德经, Pinyin: Dàodéjīng) is a classic Chinese text, written by [[Lao Tzu]]. It is a basic text of [[Daoism]]. | + | It is divided into 81 chapters, poems and stories, about 5,000 characters in all. The passages in Tao Te Jing are sometimes difficult to translate; many translations are not very good.<ref>http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4189(199007)70%3A3%3C492%3ATTCANE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7</ref> |