Dao De Jing — Wang Bi Commentary
Laozi (traditional attribution)
81 original numbered chapters of the classical Dao De Jing, in the historic Wang Bi annotated Chinese edition. Chapter scripture and original third-century commentary are preserved in displayed source order; this is NOT an English translation, not a clean scripture-only text, not the Project Gutenberg #7337/Legge edition, and not a manuscript-critical facsimile. Wikisource rendered HTML navigation/CSS excluded, source punctuation retained, edition revision pinned.
Book & edition details
- Original language
- Chinese
- Original publication
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- Edition
- Dao De Jing — Wang Bi original Chinese commentary edition
- Publisher
- Historical Wang Bi commentary / Wikisource volunteer transcription
- Length
- 17,572 words · about 88 min
- Reader typography
- standard
Authenticity notes: 81 original numbered chapters of the classical Dao De Jing, in the historic Wang Bi annotated Chinese edition. Chapter scripture and original third-century commentary are preserved in displayed source order; this is NOT an English translation, not a clean scripture-only text, not the Project Gutenberg #7337/Legge edition, and not a manuscript-critical facsimile. Wikisource rendered HTML navigation/CSS excluded, source punctuation retained, edition revision pinned.
Authentic source provenance
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- Source / authority
- Chinese classical Dao De Jing with historical Wang Bi commentary; Wikisource oldid 2354026
- Source edition / identifier
- zh-wikisource-wangbi-dao-de-jing-rev2354026
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