# Tao Te Ching

by [Laozi](https://localbooks.app/authors/laozi)

- Genres: [أديان العالم](https://localbooks.app/genres/religion/world-religions), [التأمل واليقظة الذهنية](https://localbooks.app/genres/religion/meditation-and-mindfulness)
- Set in: [لويانغ, Henan, الصين](https://localbooks.app/places/cn/henan/luoyang)
- Audience: Adult

## Description

Eighty-one short chapters praise the strength of water, the usefulness of empty spaces and the ruler who governs best by doing least. Tradition says an archivist of the Zhou court at Luoyang wrote them down at a frontier pass on his way out of China.

## Where to buy

- [Standard Ebooks (ebook)](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laozi/tao-te-ching/james-legge)

Read a free sample: https://localbooks.app/books/tao-te-ching/read/1 (87 chapters, 39178 words)

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