Ep. 50 | Daoism (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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The Daute Jing - A Brief History
The tade ching is little more than five thousand characters in length, and like the bible or koran, you can sort of interpret it in a bunch of different ways. The writer to whom the douted ging is credited has pretty much been lausu to the west, at least since the nineteenth century. In any case, tradition says his surname was lee and his full name was lee r. Half the sources i use said las lived in the fourth century b c; the other half said the sixth century b c. It's a polytheistic religion envolving a multitude of gods. There aren't any prayers or hymns like we do have.
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