A Country Doctor's Notebook

A fundamental source of the Eastern teaching and one of the outstanding monuments of ancient Chinese thought!

The name of the ancient Chinese thinker Lao-tzu, who lived in China in the VI–V centuries BCE, can be translated as “Old child.” (Although this character can also be translated as “Old sage.”) Lao-tzu is the founder of the ancient Chinese teaching, the essence of which is laid out in the treatise “Dao De Jing.”

The book presents the first translation of Lao-tzu’s treatise made in 1894 by the Japanese scholar, a Tolstoyan, and a graduate of the seminary affiliated with the Russian Theological Academy in Tokyo, Kōnisi Masutaro, in the baptism of Daniil Petrovich Konisi.