- Category
- Philosophical scripture
- Claimed author
- Laozi
- Likely origin
- Classical Chinese Taoist textual tradition translated by James Legge
- Date
- Classical Chinese composition traditionally associated with Laozi; represented by an 1891 English translation
- Language
- Classical Chinese
- Manuscripts
- Classical Tao Te Ching textual tradition represented by James Legge's public-domain English translation
- Accepted by
- Foundational Taoist classic in the Daoist textual tradition
The Tao Te Ching is indexed across all 81 chapters for Tao, nameless origin, non-action, sage rule, water, reversal, simplicity, power, heaven and earth, and the Way's relation to governance and inner life.