Difference between revisions of "Tao Te Ching"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(add "concise article", needs expansion :)) |
(Not an expert, but I think I can handle this!) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | + | The '''Tao Te Ching''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 道德经; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 道德經; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Dàodéjīng) is a classic Chinese text, written by [[Lao Tzu]]. It is a basic text of [[Daoism]]. | |
| − | The Tao Te | + | 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> |
| + | |||
| + | ===References=== | ||
| + | <references/> | ||
Revision as of 03:25, December 24, 2009
The Tao Te Ching (Simplified: 道德经; Traditional: 道德經; Hanyu 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.[1]