Laozi
Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi
Critical edition
Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi
老子道德經注 (王弼)
A philosophical commentary that reads the Daodejing from the notion of non-being (wu) as the ground of all that is. It fixed the 81-chapter division and the Dao–De order. Its metaphysical reading shaped the "Study of the Mysterious" (xuanxue) school and all later reception, including the Western one.
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Authorship note
The work of Wang Bi (226–249), not of Laozi. Included because its base text was, until 1973, the reference version of the Daodejing.
Editions and translations
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English
Laozi
A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation
The Conscious LibraryA Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation
SUNY Press, 2003
Translation: Rudolf G. Wagner
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Other works by Laozi
- Daodejing (Tao Te Ching). The Book of the Way and its Virtue · 300
- The Guodian Laozi (bundles A, B and C) · 300
- The Mawangdui Laozi (silk copies A and B) · 195
- 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
- Lau, D. C. (trad.). Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching. Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1963 (introducción y apéndice «The problem of authorship»). ISBN 9780140441314.
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