These pages contains The Tao Te Ching written by master Lao-Tze. There are many translaitions of his work. This one is translaited by S. Mitchell.

The Tao Te Ching is one of the 3 tradisional taoism-books. It contains 81 short chapters arranged in two sections: the Tao Ching - the first 37 chapters, and the Te Ching - 44 chapters.

The legend says that Lao-Tze was born during the period of the warring states in China (6 th. century BC.). There are no evidence that he lived at that time and there are many theories about him.

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