According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

" Even today, though these errors have been recognized for more than a century, the general notion that Lao Tzu was Christ's forerunner has lost none of its romantic appeal.

Lao Tzu and Taoism.

In the tradition of its leading thinkers Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, Taoism is comparable with Pantheism, as The Tao is always spoken of with profound religious reverence and respect, similar to the way that Pantheism discusses the " divinity " of the Universe.

Pearl of Lao Tzu, the largest known pearl came from a giant clam

The largest pearl known was found in the Philippines in 1934 and is known as the Pearl of Lao Tzu.

Taoist documents from as early as the Han Dynasty claimed that Lao Tzu appeared on earth as different persons in different times beginning in the legendary era of Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Reading Lao Tzu: A Companion to the Tao Te Ching With a New Translation ( Xlibris Corporation, 2003 ).

" Philological Notes on Chapter One of the Lao Tzu " ( Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1957, 20: 598 – 618 ).

* Mair, Victor H. Dao De Jing: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way, by Lao Tzu ; an entirely new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts ( Bantam Books, 1990 ).

* May 7 – The Pearl of Lao Tzu, 24 x 14 cm, is found in a giant clam off Palawan, Philippines.

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Other works referred to within the novel itself are the writings of Lao Tzu, the Kama Sutra, the Torah, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the Tao Te Ching and, of course, the Gospels of the New Testament.

Taoism's central books are the Dao De Jing ( Tao-Te-Ching ), traditionally attributed to Laozi ( Lao Tzu ), and the Zhuangzi ( Chuang Tzu ).

* Lao Zi ( Lao Tzu: dates uncertain ), founder of Daoism.

His ashes were placed in his newly built bedroom in Lao Tzu House at the Poona ashram.

Other influences he acknowledged in his memoirs included Socrates, Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus, Confucius, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Otis Whitman, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Victor Hugo, Edward Bellamy, Olive Schreiner, Richard Maurice Bucke, and Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe.

Li studied with Lao Tzu ( founder of Taoism ).

Lao Tzu tempted him with a beautiful woman he had made of wood.

French gunboats appeared at Bangkok, and demanded the cession of Lao territories east of the Mekong River.

For a few months the Pathēt Lao appeared to honour their promises of moderation.

Out of the major Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam characters, Captain Bright Noa and Axis leader Haman Karn are featured prominently in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Hayato Kobayashi, Kamille Bidan, Fa Yuiry, Wong Lee, Yazan Gable, Mineva Lao Zabi, and the children Shinta and Qum are featured in various episodes as well ; Sayla Mass, who had appeared in the first series but had no speaking role in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, also appeared in several episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Char Aznable's planned appearance was canceled when Tomino was given the go-ahead to do the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie.

In 1985, he appeared in the show Miami Vice as General Lao Li, head of an Asian drug cartel in the episode " Golden Triangle ( Part II )".

Centuries earlier, the same Chinese character appeared at the end of verse 40 of Lao Zi's Daodejing ( Tao Te Ching ) in a line sometimes translated as " existence emerges from nonexistence ".

While the AH-3 highway was expected to increase business and trade through increased market access to both China and Thailand, including the country's agribusiness and tourism sectors, the Lao government appeared more open to increasing state revenues through the collection of transit fees and taxes on goods that arrived at its borders.

The PlayStation ( PSX ), Sega Saturn, and PC versions also contain alternate versions of Jax, Kung Lao, Kano and Raiden as they appeared in the first or second game, as they were the only actors who returned as special characters in the game ; Ho Sung Pak ( Liu Kang ), Philip Ahn ( Shang Tsung ), Elizabeth Malecki ( Sonya Blade ), Katalin Zamiar ( Kitana / Mileena / Jade ) and Dan Pesina ( Johnny Cage and Scorpion / Sub-Zero / Reptile / Smoke ) left Midway prior to the production of MK3 due to royalty disputes.

French gunboats appeared at Bangkok, and demanded the cession of Lao territories east of the Mekong.

In May 2012, Lee appeared in the Sacha Baron Cohen film The Dictator as Mr. Lao, a Chinese diplomat.

The Royal Lao Government had close relations with the United States, who gave the country aid and assisted it in the campaign against the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Communist movement.

Linguistic analysis indicates that the division of the early Tai speakers into the language groups that gave rise to modern Thai, Lao and other languages occurred sometime between the 7th and 11th centuries CE.

Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, dreading further conflict and apparently trusting Souphanouvong's promises of a moderate policy, gave instructions that the Pathēt Lao were not to be resisted, and the U. S. began to withdraw its diplomatic personnel.

Now Pathet Lao propagandists were reported marching him barefoot from village to village, as evidence of evil American intervention.

* Roy Chiao as Lao Che: A Shanghai crime boss who hires Indy to recover the cremated ashes of one of his ancestors, only to attempt to cheat him out of his fee, a large diamond.

An elephant howdah that belonged to him is now on display in the Lao National Museum in Vientiane.

However, his dedication to soldierly virtues put him at cross purposes with other Lao generals involved in the drug trade.

In 1959, Thao Ma rose to command the Aviation Laotienne ; the following year, it became the Royal Lao Air Force, with him still in command.

Finally, in May 1966 the Lao General Staff summoned Thao Ma from RLAF headqarters at Savannakhet to inform him they had split off the transport planes into a separate air command and placed them under Sourith Don Sasorith.

On 22 October 2012, Thao Ma attempted a coup via air strike when he led Lao T-28 pilots loyal to to him in a sortie directed at Vientiane.

The king reinstated the French rule by repudiating his actions that had been pressured from him by the Japanese, Chinese, and Lao Issara.

Souphanouvong, by contrast, was confident and a master political tactician, and had behind him the disciplined cadres of the communist party and the Pathēt Lao forces and the North Vietnamese army.

Also during June 1964, a flight of A Team T-28s bombed Kong Le's Neutralist headquarters at Khang Khay in a successful attempt to make him switch his alliance from the Pathet Lao to side with the Royalists.

After refusing to acknowledge the presence of this woman and therefore defeating his temptation, Lao Tzu told him of his trick and rewarded him with a small white tablet.

Lao Tzu approached him in disguise and told him he should take any money that came to him.

After Li Tieh-Kuai refused, saying that he did not care if he remained poor his whole life, Lao Tzu rewarded him with another pill.

" Lao Tzu also used the bottle to make him an iron crutch that would never rust nor break.

After begging him for forgiveness for his indiscretion, Zhang Guo Lao then sprinkled water on Fa-shan's face and he revived.

Liu's attempt on Lao Cai brought him into conflict with the Yellow Flags.

In September 1884 Tang led the Yunnan Army down the Red River from Lao Cai to threaten the French post of Tuyen Quang, and Liu Yung-fu took service with him as a subordinate general.

He eventually defeated Wukong through teamwork with several other gods ; Lao Tzu personally had dropped his refined golden ring that had hit Sun Wukong on the head, giving Erlang a chance to bring him down, and Erlang's dog bit him in the leg.

Lana is the granddaughter of Dr. Lao, and Lepka wants to use her to get Lao to tell him the secret of solar power.