The Daode Jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty

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The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	1. Cheng Xuanying: Biographical Data
	2. Context: The Challenges of Being a Daoist in Early Tang Chang’an
	3. Cheng Xuanying’s Expository Commentary and the  “Chinese Conquest of Buddhism”
		A. Creating Structure: Daode jing Exegesis and  Buddhist Textual Organization (kepan)
		B. The Method of Chongxuan: The Daode jing and  Buddhist Mādhyamika Teachings
		C. Dao and the Phenomenal World
		D. Human Beings, the Mind, and Cultivation
		E. The Sage—​God, Ruler, Master, and Model
	4. Conventions of This Book
Translation
Scroll One: The Classic of Dao  (Daojing 道 經)
	Preface
	The First Section of Scroll One
		1. The Dao that Can Be Spoken of as Dao
The Second Section of Scroll One
	2. All under Heaven Know
	3. Do Not Value the Wise
	4. The Dao Is Empty
	5. Heaven and Earth
	6. The Valley Spirit
	7. Heaven and Earth Are Long Enduring
	8. The Highest Goodness
	9. Holding It
	10. Carry the Souls
	11. Thirty Spokes
	12. Five Colors
	13. Favor and Disgrace
	14. Looking at It
	15. Of Ancient Times
	16. Bringing Emptiness to the Limit
	17. Taishang
	18. Great Dao
	19. Abolish Sagehood
	20. Abolish Learning
	21. Great Virtue
	22. Crooked, Therefore
	23. Sparing in Words
	24. He Who Stands on Tiptoe
	25. There Is a Thing
	26. Weightiness Is
	27. Skillfully Acting
	28. Knowing Masculinity
	29. Those Who Wish
	30. [One Who] Takes Dao
	31. Fine Weapons
	32. Dao Is Constant
	33. He Who Knows Other Men
	34. The Great Dao
	35. The Great Image
	36. If You Want to Contain Something
The Third Section of Scroll One
	37. Dao Is Forever without Intentional Action
Scroll Two: The Classic of Virtue  (Dejing 德 經)
	38. Superior Virtue
The Second Section of Scroll Two
	39. Formerly
	40. Returning
	41. The Person of Highest Capacities
	42. Dao Generates
	43. Under Heaven
	44. Fame or Your Self, Which Is Closer to You?
	45. Great Accomplishment
	46. When the World Has Dao
	47. Not Going Out of the Door
	48. Pursuing Studies
	49. The Sage Has No Constant Mind [of His Own]
	50. Emerging to Life and Entering Death
	51. Dao Generates Them
	52. The World
	53. If I Were
	54. One Who Skillfully Establishes Himself
	55. One Who Embraces Virtue
	56. He Who Knows
	57. With Politics
	58. One’s Governing
	59. Governing the People
	60. Governing a Great State
	61. A Great State
	62. The Dao
	63. Act without Acting
	64. What Is at Rest
	65. Those in Ancient Times
	66. [Great] Rivers and the Sea
	67. The World
	68. Those in Ancient Times
	69. Those Who Direct Military Operations
	70. My Words
	71. [When] Knowing Is Not Knowing
	72. If the People Do Not Fear the Severe
	73. Boldly
	74. Since the People Do Not Fear Death
	75. The People Starve
	76. Human Beings
	77. The Dao of Heaven
	78. The Softest and Weakest in the World
	79. Harmonizing Great Enmity
	80. The Small State
The Third Section of Scroll Two
	81. Trustworthy Words
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index