内容简介
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
ethical, practical, and spiritual dimensions has become essential
to the life of China’s enormously powerful civilization. In the
process of this elucidation, Lao-tzu both clarifies and deepens
those central religious mysteries around which our life on earth
revolves.
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