Stock ID #217689 太上感应篇. T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ian. Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution. PAUL CARUS, DR, AND.
太上感应篇. T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ian. Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution.

太上感应篇. T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ian. Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution.

Illinois. The Open Court Publishing Co., 1944. Reprint. Stock ID #217689

Translated by Teitaro Suzuki and Paul Carus. Frontispiece of the philosopher Lao Tze, numerous black line illustrations throughout, index, 139pp. 21 x 13.5cm. Includes original Chinese text with character-by-character translations on facing pages. Evenly browned throughout, place of purchase neatly written front endpaper, publisher's stamp title page. Text in English, with a section of original text in traditional Chinese characters. Small mark lower cover, very good hardback copy.

According to the introduction, the T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ian is a work of Taoist piety and ethics, and its moral maxims are presented with a popular directness. Texts and illustrations are facsimile reproductions taken mainly from Chinese texts made in Japan by Chinese scribes and artists.. It is a book of moral injunctions, a description of evil-doers and their penalties, and sayings from various unknown Taoist sources.

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