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| | Laozi Biography / Biography of Laozi Religion Biography |
 | | Initially, the proposal that Laozi was the Buddha seems to have reflected no more than an amalgamation of Daoist and Buddhist traditions in their formative stages. | | | Thus did the legend of Laozi's disappearance at Hangu Pass lead to the claim that the Buddha was none other than Laozi, and that his journey was a mission to convert all mortals to the "way of the Dao." This is what came to be known as the huahu ("conversion of barbarians") theory. | | | As the exemplary disciple of Laozi, Yin was also eventually revered as a Daoist patriarch. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/biography-laozi-eorl-08
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| | Taoism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Like in Christianity "Jesus" and the "cross", and in Buddhism the "wheel", Taoism has Laozi, actual Chinese characters, and many other symbols that are often represent or are associated with it. | | | The image depicts Laozi together with The Buddha, and Confucius. | | | The Xuanxue ("Dark Learning") school, including Wang Bi, focuses on the texts of Laozi and Zhuangzi (not the organized religion). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism
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| | Laozi |
| | Laozi (Lao-tzu, in “Wade-Giles” romanization) flourished during the sixth century B.C.E. and was the “founder” of Daoism, according to Chinese tradition. | | | Lao Dan is but one manifestation of the divine Laozi, albeit a pivotal one because of the writing of the Daodejing, which in religious Daoism commands devotion as a foundational scripture that promises not only wisdom but also immortality and salvation to those who submit to its power. | | | Chan, for example, believes that the text “embodied” the teachings of Laozi, although it was not written until the fourth century (1963, 74). |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laozi
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| | DDJ Lecture Notes |
| | Laozi said to his junior by 50 years: "What you are talking about concerns merely the words left by people who have rotted along with their bones. | | | Laozi’s miraculous conception seems to have been borrowed from the life of the Buddha. | | | In contrast Laozi is his own mother: "The body of the Dao is first a woman, then a child, whereas the father is entirely absent from this genesis" (Schipper, 124). |
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http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/g/gier/308/ddj.htm
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| | Dao De Jing: INTRODUCTION ALONG WITH FIRST FOUR STANZAS |
| | As Laozi rejects paternal guidance and heaven's authority, he also turns away from Confucian history grandly conceived as a descending procession of fathers and kings who empower the living generation with their legacy of virtue. | | | Second, it attempts to reproduce the condensed aphoristic force of Laozi's style, the appeal of his intriguing and often indeterminate syntax, and the prevalence of rhymed verse in his original. | | | Stanza 4 is not in the Guodian text of the Laozi. |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9387/9387.intro.html
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| | Laozi (Lao-tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Laozi is the name of a legendary Daoist philosopher, the alternate title of the early Chinese text better known in the West as the Daodejing, and the moniker of a deity in the pantheon of organized “religious Daoism” that arose during the later Han dynasty (25-220 CE). | | | In this text, Laozi has three births: as the manifestation of the dao from pure energy to become a deity in heaven; in human form as the ancient philosopher of the Daodejing; and as the Buddha after his journey to the West. | | | Since his biography located Laozi earlier than Zhuangzi, and the passages in the Zhuangzi seemed to be about a person who lived before the text (and not to be simply a literary or traditional invention), then Laozi became established as the founder of the Daoist school. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/laozi.htm
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| | Background Essay no. 40 Dao / Taoism AskAsia.org |
| | Laozi and Zhuangzi had reinterpreted the ancient nature worship and esoteric arts, but they crept back into the tradition as ways of using knowledge of the Dao to enhance and prolong life. | | | Dao, or Taoism, as it is often known in the West, is a belief system with folk religion roots in China popularized by the philosopher Laozi in the 5th century B.C.E. It has taken many forms throughout the centuries, coexisting with Confucianism and Buddhism. | | | They saw in Dao and nature the basis of a spiritual approach to living. |
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http://www.askasia.org/teachers/essays/essay.php?no=40
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| | Asia Times - Part 4: Taoism and modernity |
| | It is a book of revelation with an effect similar to what the Bible has on devoted Christians. | | | A talented propagandist and messianic faith-healer, Zhang Jiao proclaimed himself pope of a new religion based on a synthesis of Huangdi (Yellow Emperor), primeval mythical sovereign, and a deified Laozi, founder of Taoism. | | | Zhuangzhou, a Zhou Dynasty skeptic and mystic who lived in 4th century BC, in his classic Zhuangzi expounded on many of Laozi's doctrines with original insight, ingenious construct, incisive witticism and delightful charm. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EH01Ad01.html
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| | Wu wei (Non-Action) in Daoism |
| | Implicitly, in contrast to Buddhism, Laozi does not object to such "natural" desires as that for food, sex, and physical comfort. | | | The translators’ glosses (and later tradition) import a Buddhist or Western opposition of reason vs. desire or emotion. | | | The Zhuangzi, portrays Laozi as following Shen Dao in opposing knowledge. |
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http://www.hku.hk/philodep/ch/wuwei.htm
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| | Taoism |
| | Laozi could have existed and not written any of the text attributed to him. | | | It credits the text to Laozi who was stopped at the pass while attempting to leave China (to go to India and come to be known as Buddha). | | | However the traditional story of Laozi undermines the argument for placing too much emphasis on the fact that after this opening stanza, he goes on to write a text. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/taoism
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| | Laozi Debate |
| | The text, known as the Laozi or Daodejing (The Book of the Way and Its Power), is considered sacred to 20 million Daoists worldwide and has been widely read and memorized by educated Chinese for centuries. | | | The 1993 discovery of the oldest version of a seminal Daoist text in a late fourth-century B.C. tomb in Guodian, Hubei Province, China, has provoked scholarly debate about the origins of the Daoist and Confucian traditions and the relationship between them. | | | Scholars at the conference considered two possible explanations for why the Guodian Laozi is incomplete and out of sequence, says Robert Henricks, professor of Chinese religions at Dartmouth. |
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http://www.archaeology.org/9811/newsbriefs/laozi.html
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| | Reportret: Laozi |
| | It's clear though that Laozi lived at a time in which the method of depicting was changing (for that matter in contrast to the mentioned way to dress, or the practice of writing, for example) — in the era that's currently known as Dong Zhou (= &; Zhou). | | | As a national religion and political theory the ideas of Laozi — denominated ‘Daoism&; would have great, lasting influence on Chinese history. | | | Therefore, the image of Laozi has to be build up entirely from assumptions. |
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http://www.reportret.info/gallery/laozi1.html
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| | Taoism |
| | Taoism's focus on nature and the natural order complements the societal focus of Confucianism, and its synthesis with Buddhism is the basis of Zen. | | | Chinese tradition states that he lived in the 6th century BC. | | | Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism and the author of its classic text, the Tao-te ching. |
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http://www.ishwar.com/taoism
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| | The Drunken Boat |
| | It is by no means certain that a historical personage named Laozi ever existed. | | | Since Laozi also means “old man,“ and there is evidence of a body of wisdom literature whose various book titles all translate as “elder“ or “old man,“ it may be that this collection is the lone survivor of this lost genre. | | | Laozi was the legendary author of the Dao De Jing, a collection of prose and verse wisdom literature that is considered the seminal and essential work of Daoism. |
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http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/laozi.html
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| | The Daoism-Taoism Philosophy |
| | Sunzi(Sun Tzu), who was said to be once taught by Laozi personally, has established himself as a great military strategist. | | | However, Zhuangzi(Chuang Tzu) had romanticized his themes, he was thus more a man of letters. | | | Confucius had visited Laozi three times; it is arguable that he had been influenced considerably by Laozi. |
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http://www.daoism.net
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| | Amazon.com: Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way: Books: Moss Roberts,Laozi,Laozi |
| | Here are the furious warlords, craggy landscapes teeming with the ten thousand creatures of Taoist philosophy; China's careful arts of government and war; science, yoga, alchemy, erotics; old bamboo texts hidden in caves for millennia. | | | This book is for anyone who has met Laozi's 'dark' mind and wants a closer look."-Andrew Schelling, author of The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems from Old Indiaand Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry "This is a work of great creativity and impressive scholarship. | | | As such, Roberts' translation could be considered the most definitive translation of the TAO TE CHING presently available. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520205553?v=glance
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| | Laozi - Criticadelibros.org |
| | Laozi - Dao De Jing - The Book of the Way | | | The Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998 (Early China Special Monograph Series, No. 5) | | | International Conference on the Guodian Laozi Sarah Allan Crispin Williams Lao-Tzu |
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http://www.criticadelibros.org/Laozi
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