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    Lao Tzu

    Born: Sixth century b.c.e.
    China
    Died: Sixth century b.c.e.
    China

    Chinese philosopher

    Lao Tzu is believed to have been a Chinese philosopher (a person who seeks to answer questions about humans and their place in the universe) and the accepted author of the Tao te ching, the main text of Taoist thought.

    He is considered the father of Chinese Taoism (a philosophy that advocates living a simple life).

    Three Lao Tzus

    The main source of information on Lao Tzu's life is a biography written by the historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien (&#x;86 b.c.e.) in his Records of the Historian. By this time a number of traditions or beliefs about the founder of Chinese Taoism were going around, and Ssu-ma Ch'ien himself was unsure of their authenticity.

    The biography in fact contains an account of not one but three men called Lao Tzu.

    The first Lao Tzu was a man named Li Erh or Li Tan, who came from the village of Ch'üjen in the southern Chinese state of Ch'u.

    Li Erh served as historia