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Taoism
Taoism , refers both to a Chinese system of thought and to one of the four major religions of China (with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Chinese popular religion). Philosophical Taoism The philosophical system stems largely from the Tao-te-ching, a text traditionally ascribed to Lao Tzu b... Read more
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu , fl. 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher, reputedly the founder of Taoism . It is uncertain that Lao Tzu [Ch.,=old person or old philosopher] is historical. His biography in Ssu-ma Ch'ien 's Records of the Historian (1st cent. BC) says he was a contemporary of Confucius and served as cu... Read more
Chinese literature
Chinese literature the literature of ancient and modern China. Early Writing and Literature It is not known when the current system of writing Chinese first developed. The oldest written records date from about 1400 BC in the period of the Shang dynasty, but the elaborate system of nota... Read more
Jingdezhen
Jingdezhen or Fowliang , city (1994 est. pop. 294,000), NE Jiangxi prov., China, on the Chang River. It is world famous for its fine porcelain, made since the Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 220) from the white clay, kaolin, found near Poyang Lake to the west. Coal is mined in the region. The city reache... Read more
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo , 1909-88, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek , Chinese Nationalist leader, and president of Taiwan. Returning after 12 years in the Soviet Union (1937), he served in minor Chinese government posts until the Nationalist retreat to Taiwan (1949). Afterward he rose to control the armed fo... Read more
Ho-shen
Ho-shen , 1750-99, Manchu official noted for symbolizing the widespread corruption of the Ch'ing dynasty of China during its decline. As a favorite of emperor Ch'ien-lung , he rose, within two years, from bodyguard to grand councilor and minister of the imperial household. Later, while president of... Read more
Ai Ch'ing
Ai Ch'ing or Ai Qing , pseud. of Chiang Hai-ch'eng or Jiang Haicheng, 1910-96, Chinese poet. After studying painting in France (1929-32), he returned to China where he wrote modernist poetry in flamboyant free verse that showed the influence of the Soviet poet Mayakovsky . He was active... Read more
Book of Changes
Book of Changes or I Ching , ancient Chinese book of prophecy and wisdom. The oldest parts of its text are thought to have attained their present form in the century before Confucius. Its images and concepts were taken partly from oracles and partly from the mythology, history, and poetry of ear... Read more
Wang Ching-wei
Wang Ching-wei , 1883-1944, Chinese revolutionary and political leader. A supporter of Sun Yat-sen , Wang was sentenced (1910) to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate the regent of China. Freed in 1912, he studied in France until 1917, when he became personal assistant to Sun. Upon Sun's... Read more
Chang Chih-tung
Chang Chih-tung , 1837-1909, Chinese Ch'ing dynasty statesman and educational reformer. He occupied the high post of governor-general for over two decades, first of Guangdong and Guangxi provs. (1884-89), and later of Hunan and Hubei provs. (1889-1907). In that position he vigorously pressed the lat... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Tao Te Ching"

Tao-an
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...During this period (until 365) Tao-an was, since he came from a scholarly...by Wang Pi (226-249) upon the Tao-te ching and by Kuo Hsiang (died 312) upon...what the text really meant. In 365 Tao-an fled the chaos that incessant...
Tao
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Sources: Chang, Chung-Yuan. Tao; A New Way of Thinking. New York...Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao. New York: Aurora Press, 1983...1984. Ch'u Ta-Kao, trans. Tao Te Ching. London: Allen & Unwin; New...
Taoism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...known today. Lao Tzu's book Tao-te-Ching was regarded as a sacred work...the earlier Tao teachings in the Tao-te-Ching. Sources: Bishop, Peter and...and English, Jane. Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching. New York: Vintage Books, 1972...
Lao Tzu
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and the accepted author of the Tao te ching, the main text of Taoist thought...to the supreme Taoist classic, Tao te ching (Classic of the Way and the Power...This book was then known as the Tao te ching. Lao Tzu is frequently associated...
Wang Pi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...philosophers. He reinterpreted the Tao-te ching and the I ching and laid the basis...are two commentaries: one on the Tao-te ching and the other on the I ching...a fragmentary short work on the Tao-te ching (the Lao-tzu chih-l ü...
T'ai Chi Ch'uan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Chi Ch'uan is summarized in the Tao Te Ching: "A man is born gentle and weak...Da Liu. T'ai Chi Ch'uan and I Ching. New York: Harper & Row...Fu and Jane English. Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching. New York: Vintage Books, 1972...
Chinese literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...contain verse, the main collection of poetry in the Wu Ching is the Shih Ching [classic of songs or book of odes], made up of...Mencius ). Other important early books include the Tao Te Ching [classic of the way and its power], traditionally...
Yin and Yang
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Chinese system of divination of the I Ching (Book of Changes). It is basic...as embodied in the classic work Tao-te-Ching (Book of the Right Way) of the...properly prepared. (See also China ; Tao ) Sources: Legge, James, trans...
Tea as an Icon Food
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...520 b.c.e.), author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of Taoism, is reputed...804 C.E.) wrote the Ch'a Ching (c. 780 C.E.; later translated...It is likely that his C'ha Ching became the basis for the highly ritualized...
Chuang Tzu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...characterized by its emphasis on the unity and spontaneity of the Tao, its assertion of personal freedom, and its doctrine...Tzu. As in the case of the Lao Tzu (also known as the Tao Te Ching ), there has been much controversy over the authorship...

Dictionary entries related to "Tao Te Ching"

Tao-te Ching
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Tao-te Ching ( The Book of the Way and its Power ). A...copy is c. 200 BCE. The text expounds the Tao as the unproduced and inexpressible source...which nevertheless becomes manifest through Te , through proper understanding of which the...
Tao
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...harmony with the natural order. The interpretation of Tao in the Tao-te-Ching developed into the philosophical religion of Taoism. Tao-te-Ching the central Taoist text, ascribed to Lao-tzu...
Taoism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...was once thought, incompatible alternatives). Tao-chia goes back traditionally to Lao-tzu and Tao-te ching ( Daode jing ). Tao-te ching proposes a transformation of character within, from which good society and behaviour will flow. Where...
Fu
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Fu, also fan (Chin., ‘return’). The movement of the Tao in Tao-te ching (16), whereby all things return to their source. In meditation, this ‘returning to the root’ is the means to enlightenment.
Hsüan-Hsüeh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Hsiang (d. 312), all of whom wrote commentaries on Tao-te ching . They developed Chʾing-tʾan...also known. Against their predecessors, they held that Tao , as non-being, is not an agent bringing things into...
Lao-Tzu
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Confucius . His main importance is the tradition that he is the author of Tao-te ching , which is consequently also known as Lao-tzu ; though again that...cannot be historically true. He was later deified in religious Taoism ( tao-chiao ).
PINYIN → WADE‐GILES CONVERSION TABLE
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...ien‐jan Dao Tao Daoan Tao‐an Daochuo Tao‐ch'o Daodejing Tao‐te Ching Daodetianzun Tao‐te t'ien‐tsun Dao Hongjing T'ao Hung‐ching Daojia Tao‐chia...
San-pao
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions San-pao (Chin., ‘three treasures’). Taoist virtues derived from Tao-te ching 67; mercy/love; no excess/frugality; modesty.
Ho-shang Kung
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Ho-shang Kung. A somewhat legendary Taoist figure, supposed to have written the commentary on the Tao-te ching which bears his name.
longest
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...derived from the Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism Lao Tzu ( c. 604– c. 531 bc), who says in the Tao-te Ching , ‘the journey of a thousand li starts from where one stands.’ the longest way round is the...

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Tao Te Ching.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 6/26/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...new translation of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching should have marked a minor watershed...for blockbuster fiction. But the Tao Te Ching has always sold relatively well...t read Chinese. However, the Tao Te Ching is available in a wide variety of...
Roundup: International Forum on Tao Te Ching calls for harmony
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/27/2007; 597 words ; ...Roundup: International Forum on Tao Te Ching calls for harmony HONG KONG, April...long "International Forum on the Tao Te Ching" closed Friday with a declaration...throughout its 2,000 years history, Tao Te Ching is one of the most studied and well...
Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 10/1/2006; 479 words ; Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained Derek Lin...translated into English by Derek Lin (Tao Te Ching expert and Director of Tao Studies at the Great Tao Foundation of America), "Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained" introduces...
The uses of quietism.(Tao Te Ching)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...could do worse than pick up the Tao Te Ching. A new annotated translation of...1) Roberts's version of the Tao Te Ching raises the political issue with...First, some background on the Tao Te Ching. I imagine the one thing that everyone...
The Tao of womanhood: Nature's wisdom for today's women. (Tao Te Ching)
Magazine article from: World and I; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...greatest treasure Under heaven. (Tao Te Ching, 62)(1) For over two thousand...fields have been inspired by the Tao Te Ching. Translated more often than any...twenty-five centuries ago. The Tao Te Ching was written by the philosopher Laotzu...
Wisdom For The Ages In 'Tao Te Ching'
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/3/2008; ; 583 words ; ...2008 Wisdom For The Ages In 'Tao Te Ching' Host: MICHELE NORRIS Time 9...people that I like to read the "Tao Te Ching," they start staring at the floor...pound gong. But the thing is the "Tao Te Ching" is one of the least ooey-wooey...
Earliest version of Tao Te Ching exhibited in HK
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/26/2007; 479 words ; Earliest version of Tao Te Ching exhibited in HK HONG KONG, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The "bamboo slip" Tao Te Ching, which could be dated prior to...classic. It is the largest scale of Tao Te Ching exhibition in the world, vice chairman...
Revealing the Tao Te Ching (religion/spirituality).(Revealing the Tao Te Ching: In Depth Commentaries on an Ancient Classic)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch; 9/1/2007; ; 642 words ; Revealing the Tao Te Ching (religion/spirituality) Hu Xuezhi...Hu Xuezhi presents Revealing the Tao Te Ching: In Depth Commentaries on an Ancient...classic of spirituality, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, into English with an extensive...
Guinness record set for reciting Tao Te Ching
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/21/2007; 577 words ; ...Guinness record set for reciting Tao Te Ching HONG KONG, April 21 (Xinhua...China's philosophical classic "Tao Te Ching" together at Hong Kong Stadium...of the "International Forum of Tao Te Ching", the rally attracted over two...
Leyenda Personal / El 'Tao Te Ching'.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 6/23/2003; 700+ words ; ...llegar a nuestros das. Se llama Tao Te Ching, est publicado en espaol por varias...entusiasmado con la belleza del libro chino Tao Te Ching, decidi recabar fondos para traducir...fin pudo el pueblo japons leer el Tao Te Ching. Dicen los sabios que este monje...