Approach the Dao De Jing through its key ideas, poetic language, textual history and the questions that make translation challenging.
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A short text with a long history
The Dao De Jing (道德经), also known as the Tao Te Ching or the Laozi, is a major classical text associated with Daoist thought. Its compact passages explore the dao, or “Way,” and de, a term translated in d --- TRUNCATED --- 1,680 chars