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Is it "Dao" instead of "Tao" to avoid some name collision/confusion with The Tao of Computer Programming? https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html https://www.mit.ed

• wjmao88 4y ago
  "Tao" is an old translation with (I think) the Wade-Giles system, while "Dao" uses the correct consonant that matches the Mandarin pronounciation of that word.
• iamcurious 4y ago
  It has to do with how we carry words from Chinese to English. ``Is Daoism the same as Taoism? Traditionally, yes. The difference in spelling is a problem of transliteration from Chinese to English, where the Chinese pronunciation is somewhere between “Tao” and “Dao.” While it’s far more common to transliterate it as “Taoism,” it is actually pronounced closer to “Daoism.” "[1] [1]https://daoism.org/dao-or-tao/ https://daoism.org/dao-or-tao/