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Taoism: the parting of the way
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- [Revised edition]
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1966, c1965]
- Boston : Beacon, [1966]
- [©1965]
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- 194 pages : frontispiece ; 21 cm
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- 9780807059739, 0807059730
- Published in 1957 under title: The parting of the way.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 186-188.
- Foreword -- Part One: The problem of Lao Tzu -- Part Two: The Tao Te Ching -- Inaction -- The uncarved block -- Tao -- Seeking the ancestry -- Part Three: The Taoist movement -- The beginnings of Taoism -- The period of syncretism -- The first four centuries A.D.: the interior gods hygiene school -- The Taoist church -- The school of "pure conversation" -- Ko Hung -- After the fourth century: alchemy and hygiene -- The development of the Taoist pantheon -- Taoist church organization -- The Taoist church in politics -- Later philosophical Taoism -- Part Four: Tao today -- Appendix I: The authorship of the Tao Te Ching -- Appendix II: Chronological chart