The long tradition that Laozi was the author of the Tao-te Ching was so badly shaken in the 19th century that some scholars even questioned the historical existence of the sage. Laozi, however, is better known as the reputed founder of Daoism, a way of life (the Chinese word dao, or tao, means “way”) that, among many competing “Ways,” alone became known as the Dao school, or Daoism. It had previously been called Laozi in the belief that it was written by Laozi, identified by the historian Sima Qian as a 6th-century- bce curator of the imperial Chinese archives. The name was first used during the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce).

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