Traditional attribution
Treatise of the Most High on Action and Response
太上感應篇
A short treatise of just over a thousand characters listing good and bad deeds and their consequences for the length of life. It was one of the most printed books of late imperial China and the vehicle by which Laozi's name reached popular morality. Legge translated it in 1891 alongside the Daodejing.
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Authorship note
A Song-dynasty moral text attributed to the Most High Lord Lao (Taishang Laojun), that is, to the deified Laozi; its real author is unknown.
Editions and translations
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English
The Texts of Taoism, Part II (incluye el Thâi-Shang Tractate of Actions and their Retributions)
Dover Publications, 1962
Translation: James Legge
ISBN 9780486209913
Reimpresión del vol. XL de los Sacred Books of the East (1891).
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
- 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
- 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
- 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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