Tao-de Jing. The book of the path and dignity. Lao Tzu

The name of the ancient Chinese thinker Lao Tzu, who lived in China in the VI-V centuries. BC. e. , can be translated as an "old child." (Although this hieroglyph can also be translated as an “old sage.”) Lao Tzu is the founder of the ancient Chinese teaching, the essence of which is set forth in the Tao de Jing treatise.

The book presents the first translation of the Lao-Tzu treatise, made in 1894 by a Japanese scientist, Tolstoye, a graduate of the seminary at the Russian Theological Academy in Tokyo Konisi Masutaro, in the baptism of Daniil Petrovich Konisi.