Legend says the diver drowned retrieving the pearl. Trapped in a giant Tridacna clam, his body was brought to the surface by his fellow tribesmen in Palawan, an archipelagic province of the ...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Lao Tzu is a major figure in Chinese philosophy whose historical existence is debated. He is recognised as the founding father of Taoism. As ...

This page provides a brief summary of the important texts in Taoism. The key book of Taoism was compiled around the 3rd century BCE. It's called the Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing or Daode Jing) - The Way ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 36-42 (7 pages) The Confucian self seeks to determine the development of the other (men or phenomena) and sees this as ...