Download or read book Taoism written by Holmes H. Welch, Jr. and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1971-06-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a first-rate piece of work" by T. S. Eliot, this book offers a comprehensive discussion of Taoism, one of the world's major religions, as well as a study of the Tao te ching, the best known Taoist text, and Lao-tzu as a Taoist prototype.