Topic > Daoist Doctrines of the Tao-Te Ching - 762
This is a discrepancy due to the system applied by the translator during the translation. Initially the translators applied a system based on French phonetics, the Wade-Giles system. (Hevia, 2003). An example of a word that uses the Wade-Giles system is Taoism. Subsequently, a system based on English phonetics was developed, called the Pinyin system. (Hevia, 2003). For example, in the Pinyin system Taoism is Daoism. Currently, the Pinyin system is most frequently used by translators due to its simplicity of pronunciation. Therefore, regardless of the system used by the author, the words refer to the same concept or
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