Tao Te Ching

“Tao De Ching” is the main treatise of the mystical tradition of Ancient China. It had a huge impact not only on the formation of Taoism, but also on the spiritual culture of the entire Ancient East.

The creator of “Tao De Ching” is traditionally called the main teacher of Taoism - the legendary Lao Tzu. It is believed that he was an older contemporary of Confucius, and they even met. For most of his life, Lao Tzu served as the keeper of the imperial archive during the Zhou dynasty. Having decided to leave people, because the sage was disappointed in them, at the request of the chief of the border post through which he left China, he wrote and left a small book “of five thousand words”. This was the treatise on the Way and Perfection - “Tao De Ching”.