Daodejing
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Group Author: | ; |
Published: |
Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Oxford world's classics |
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Item Description: | Dao de jing. |
Carrier Form: | xxxvi, 187 p.: ; 20 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780199208555 0199208557 |
Index Number: | B223 |
CLC: | B223.1 |
Call Number: | B223.1/L298-10 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187). The way -- The life force. "The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modelled on the great Silver River or Milky Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It enables the individual, and society as a whole, to harmonize the |