Laozi
Scripture of Constant Purity and Stillness
Traditional attribution
Scripture of Constant Purity and Stillness
太上老君說常清靜經
Some four hundred characters teaching how to still the heart and empty the desires so that the mind returns of itself to purity. It is recited daily in the Complete Perfection (Quanzhen) school and is among the most widely circulated texts of religious Taoism; Legge translated it in 1891 as the “Classic of Purity.”
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Authorship note
A short Taoist scripture of the Tang period presented as a discourse of the Most High Lord Lao (Taishang Laojun). The attribution is religious: the text is much later than the Daodejing and reflects Buddhist influence.
Editions and translations
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English
Laozi
The Khing Kang King, or Classic of Purity (en The Texts of Taoism, parte II, Sacred Books of the East, vol. XL)
The Conscious LibraryThe Khing Kang King, or Classic of Purity (en The Texts of Taoism, parte II, Sacred Books of the East, vol. XL)
Clarendon Press, 1891
Translation: James Legge
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- 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
- 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 Laozi's Transformations · 185
- Xiang'er Commentary on the Laozi · 200
Sources
- Legge, James (trad.). The Texts of Taoism. Sacred Books of the East, vols. XXXIX–XL. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891. Vol. XXXIX en Project Gutenberg nº 216.
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