Description: List of Tables and Figures Permissions Preface Editors' Introduction Part I. Ancient Myths 1. The Origins of the Legend of Lao Tan A. C. Graham 2. The Lao-tzu Myth Livia Kohn 3. Lao-tzu in Six Dynasties Taoist Sculpture Yoshiko Kamitsuka Part II. Chinese Interpretations 4. A Tale of Two Commentaries: Ho-shang-kung and Wang Pi on the Lao-tzu Alan K. L. Chan 5. Later Commentaries: Textual Polysemy and Syncretistic Interpretations Isabelle Robinet 6. The Tao-te-ching in Ritual Livia Kohn Part III. Modern Readings 7. Influential Western Interpretations of the Tao-te-ching Julia M. Hardy 8. The Thought of the Tao-te-ching Benjamin Schwartz 9. Naturalness (Tzu-jan), the Core Value in Taoism: Its Ancient Meaning and Its Significance Today Liu Xiaogan Part IV. Critical Methods 10. Situating the Language of the Lao-tzu: The Probable Date of the Tao-te-ching William H. Baxter 11. Recovering the Tao-te-ching's Original Meaning: Some Remarks on Historical Hermeneutics Michael LaFargue 12. On Translating the Tao-te-ching Michael LaFargue and Julian Pas Appendix: Index to Citations from Tao-te-ching Chapters Glossary List of Contributors Index

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