EASTERN RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY
In 1973, in Mawangdui, China, a large number of silk manuscripts were discovered
at an early Han burial place. Among these were two versions of the Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu. Dated to around 200 bce, these manuscripts were much older than all
existing versions and included, quite surprisingly yet deliberately, the Four
Canons of the Yellow Emperor--a long-lost treatise never before seen in modern
times.
Based on both the Mawangdui version of the Tao Te Ching and the recently
discovered Guodian version, this book is the first to restore the Four Canons of
the Yellow Emperor to its rightful place