Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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Lao-Tse's Tao Teh King
Chinese-English. With Introduction, Transliteration,
and Notes By DR. PAUL CARUS.
With a photogravure Frontispiece of the traditional picture of Lao-Tze, specially drawn for the work by Mishima Shoso, an eminent Japanese artist. Appropriately bound in yellow and blue, with gilt top. 345 pages. Newly bound set with 29 additional pages of Emendations and Comments. Price, $3.00 (155.)
Contains: (1) A philosophical, biographical, and historical introduction discussing Lao-Tze's system of metaphysics, its evolution, its relation to the philosophy of the world, Lao-Tze's life, and the literary history of his work; (2) Lao-Tze's l'ao Teh King in the original Chinese ; (3) an English translation; (4) the transliteration of the text, where every Chinese word with its English equivalent is given, with references in each case to a Chinese dictionary: (5) Notes and Comments; (6) Index.
THE EXTRAORDINARY SIGNIFICANCE OF LAO-TZE.
The translator says, in the Introduction to his Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King, that “No one who is interested in religion can afford to leave it unread." He undertook the labor of editing and translating this wonderful little book for the purpose of helping the English-speaking public “to appreciate the philosophical genius and the profound religious spirit of one of the greatest men that ever trod the earth.” A
Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King contains so many surprising analogies with Christian thought and sentiment in it that we should deem it written under Christian influence were its authenticity and pre-Christian ori