Explore: Daodejing

Hilmar (2009) [2008], Das Tao der Weisheit. Laozi-Daodejing [The Tao of Wisdom. Laozi-Daodejing] (in German and English), Aachen: Mainz LaFargue, Michael

One of the two (c. 168 BCE) Mawangdui silk manuscript versions of the Daodejing, discovered in 1973 by archeologists excavating a tomb, uses a rare textual

the first chapter of the Daodejing ("玄之又玄，眾妙之門"). The word xuan literally depicts a shade of deep, mystical, dark red. Daodejing speaks of the Dao as Xuan

texts like the Neiye, the Lüshi Chunqiu, the Zhuangzi, and the Daodejing. The Daodejing (also known as the Laozi after its purported author, terminus ante

Accordingly, Creel differentiated wu wei as found in the Zhuangzi and Daodejing, respectively: An "attitude of genuine non-action, motivated by a lack

birth to unity; unity gave birth to duality; duality gave birth to trinity; trinity gave birth to the myriad creatures." (Daodejing, 4th century BCE)

early work on the Guodian Chu Slips, which includes early versions of the Daodejing. "Robert Henricks". dartmouth.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017. "Henricks

the Daodejing emphasizes quietude and lack as wu wei. A central concept of what was later termed Daoism, together especially with the early Daodejing, Shen

the Daodejing, one of the main texts in Daoist teachings: "The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth." — Laozi, Daodejing Buddhism

given below from the c. 3rd-century BCE Daodejing and the c. 3rd/2nd-century BCE Zhuangzi. The Neiye and Daodejing have parallels as well as differences