Travel lao tzu biography ppt

Title: Lao Tzu* (6th century BC?) and the


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Lao Tzu(6th century BC?)and the

• Tao Te Ching
• (Dow Duh Jing)

Also known as Laotse, Laozi, Li Erh, Li Tan,
Lao Tan.
Way Power Book
(Text, pp.

33-59)
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According to tradition,Lao Tzu (The Old Boy)

• was born in 604 BC in the Chu Province,
• had a long career as the royal historian-librarian
  -archivist in the Chou capital of Lo-yang,
• (after becoming disillusioned as a result of
  the increasing decline of the Chou dynasty) left
  China for Tibet or India late in the 6th (or
  perhaps early in the 5th) century BC.

• Before leaving, however, he recorded his
  philosophical insights in a short book, the Tao
  Te Ching (also known as the Lao Tzu), which is
  one of the foundational classics of
  Philosophical Taoism.

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A second major primary source of Philosophical
Taoism is

• The Book of Chuang Tzu,
• by
• Chuang Tzu
• (also known as Chuang Cho