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Taoism

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Taoist parables attributed to Lie Yukou: the man who feared the sky would fall, the old man who moved mountains, the man who lost his axe.

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Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, tr. Lionel Giles (1912)
Lionel Giles, 1912

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Lionel Giles's selection (1912), about a third of the Liezi, read from scans of the printed book; his notes are left out. He omits the chapter on Yang Zhu, so his Book VII is the Liezi's eighth.

Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ, translated by Lionel Giles (London: John Murray, Wisdom of the East, 1912). Public domain. Read from Internet Archive scans of the printed book (taoistteachingsf00lieh, taoistteachings00liehuoft, taoistteachingsf00liezrich), checked word by word against each other; Giles's notes omitted. · Source ↗

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