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 ).

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 appeared and gave him a medicine gourd that could cure any illness and never emptied.

" 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.