History-Makers: Laozi and the Daodejing

The great sage Laozi once said: "Ugh fine, here are the ancient secrets of the universe, can I please disappear into the mountains now?" Powerful stuff, really makes you think.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
“Tao Te Ching Lao-Tzu” translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo, Introduction by Burton Watson
“Laozi and Daoism – The Way of Nature” from Great Courses lecture series “Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition” by Grant Hardy
“Daoism and the Daodejing” and “The Three Caverns of Daoist Scriptures” from Great Courses lecture series “Sacred Texts of the World” by Grant Hardy
“Records of the Grand Historian” by Sima Qian via Project Gutenberg, Google translated

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