The Sacred Books of the East (China: THE TEXTS OF TAOISM, PART-II: THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE BOOK XVIII–XXXIII)(Paperback, F. MAX MULLER, James Legge)
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About the Book:-This volume contains: The writings of Kwang Tse XVII-XXXIII, The Thai-Shang tractate of actions and their retributions, other Taoist texts and Index to vols. 39 and 40. The two volumes now submitted to the reader are a fulfilment of the promise made so long ago. They contain versions of the Three works which were specified and in addition as Appendixes, four other shorter Treatises of Taoism; Analyses of several of the books of Kwang-tze by Lin His-kung; a list of the stories which form so important a part of those Books; two Essays by two of the greatest scholars of China, written the one in A. D. 586 and illustrating the Taoistic beliefs of that age and the other in A. D. 1078 and dealing with the four books of Kwang-tze whose genuineness is frequently called in question.
