LAO TZU

LAO TZU
(6th century B.C.)
   the greatest of the TAOIST masters about whom very little is known although LEGENDS abound. He was an older contemporary of CONFUCIUS. Traditionally he is the author of the Tao Te Ching or Book of Lao-Tzu.

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