Tao Te Ching

(noun)

The book which forms the basis of Daoist philosophy.

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Examples of Tao Te Ching in the following topics:

  • Chinese Philosophy

    • Ceremonies and rituals based on the Five Classics, especially the I Ching, were strongly instituted.
    • He did so in a book called Tao Te Ching, and was never seen again.

  • Pantheism

    • Specifically, the Tao te Ching never speaks of a transcendent God, but of a mysterious and numinous ground of being underlying all things and that the divine is found in all aspects of nature.
    • Artistic representations of the Tao, or "way," sometimes depict the flow and order of the universe.

  • Timeline

    • 300 CE: The oldest known version of the Tao Te Ching is written on bamboo tablets.

  • Religion Under the Tang Dynasty

    • It is a native Chinese religious and philosophical tradition with an emphasis on living in harmony and accordance with the natural flow or cosmic structural order of the universe commonly referred to as the Tao.
    • It has its roots in the book of the Tao Te Ching (attributed to Laozi in the 6th century BCE) and the Zhuangzi.
    • The Chinese believed the Tao and the afterlife were a reality parallel to the living world, complete with a bureaucracy and an afterlife currency needed by dead ancestors.