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The Book of the Tao Te Ching (“Tao Te Ching”) is a book about the Way and the properties of human nature, which, along with the treatise Lunyu, compiled by the disciples of Confucius, is one of the most revered and at the same time most mysterious creations of Chinese literature. There are also variants of its name: The Canon of the Way and Grace, The Book of the Way and Power, and The Three Carts (because it was written on bamboo planks that occupied three carts).

This classic philosophical work of ancient China, attributed to the legendary sage Lao Tzu (VI-V century BC), is an important source of the Taoist tradition.

The book “Tao Te Ching” is both a poem with a peculiar rhythmic organisation and a philosophical treatise. The text is written in an aphoristic poetic style. Because of this, and the complexity of interpreting the main categories of the work, there is a possibility of translations that differ in content and form.

Translated from the classical Chinese by Iryna Kostanda.