Laozi
The Guodian Laozi (bundles A, B and C)
Manuscript · Essential works
The Guodian Laozi (bundles A, B and C)
郭店楚簡《老子》甲、乙、丙
The 71 slips contain some two thousand characters corresponding to 31 chapters of the received text, in a different order and with substantive variants: missing, for instance, is the attack on benevolence and righteousness in chapter 18. Bundle C is accompanied by the Taiyi sheng shui ("The Great One Gave Birth to Water"), a cosmological text unknown until then. Published in 1998 as Guodian Chu mu zhujian, they are the oldest witness of the Laozi and have forced the text's history to be rewritten.
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Authorship note
Three bundles of bamboo slips (39, 18 and 14 slips) found in 1993 in tomb 1 at Guodian, Jingmen. They are not a "draft" of the Daodejing but selections from material not yet fixed.
Editions and translations
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English
Laozi
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian
The Conscious LibraryLao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian
Columbia University Press, 2000
Translation: Robert G. Henricks
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Chino clásico · 文言
Laozi
郭店楚墓竹簡 (Guodian Chu mu zhujian)
The Conscious Library郭店楚墓竹簡 (Guodian Chu mu zhujian)
文物出版社 (Wenwu chubanshe), Pekín, 1998
Edición príncipe a cargo del Museo de Jingmen.
Other works by Laozi
- Daodejing (Tao Te Ching). The Book of the Way and its Virtue · 300
- The Mawangdui Laozi (silk copies A and B) · 195
- Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi · 240
- Heshang Gong's Commentary on the Laozi · 150
- Scripture of Western Ascension · 450
- Scripture of Laozi Converting the Barbarians · 300
- Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response · 1150
- Peking University Laozi (Western Han bamboo slips) · 100
- Scripture of Constant Purity and Stillness · 900
- Scripture of Laozi's Transformations · 185
- Xiang'er Commentary on the Laozi · 200
Sources
- Henricks, Robert G. Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian. Columbia University Press, Nueva York, 2000. Edición príncipe: Jingmen shi bowuguan (ed.), Guodian Chu mu zhujian. Wenwu chubanshe, Pekín, 1998.
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