A short introduction to Laozi and Daoism. This is part of a series that examines Chinese belief systems: how people think and behave, philosophically and relgiously. In understanding Chinese belief ...

The elusive wisdom of a Chinese sage is widely quoted but challenging to understand. Each new translation confronts its ...

Key Chinese practices this essay will cover are ancestral rites and divination, the teachings of the philosophers Confucius and Laozi, and Buddhism. Appreciating the complexity of this rich and ...

created a statue of Laozi, the great philosopher who lived more than 2,400 years ago, in which the semiabstract xieyi ("to draw the spirit") style of classical Chinese painting was integrated to ...

A bronze sculpture of ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi (about 571 BC- 471 BC) was installed on Wednesday in Greece's National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The artwork titled "Harmony between ...

The third section is an annotated edition of the Guodian Laozi materials and Taiyi sheng shui prepared by Edmund Ryden. It includes the full text in Chinese with an apparatus that gives slip and graph ...