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| | |  Ananda Coomaraswamy: Encyclopedia II - Laozi - His lifeLittle is known about Laozi's life. His historical existence is strongly debated, as is his authorship of the Dao De Jing. Laozi has become an important culture hero to subsequent generations of Chinese people. Tradition says he was born in Ku Prefecture (苦縣 Kǔ Xiàn) of the state of Chǔ (楚), which today is Lùyì County (鹿邑) of Henan province, in the later years of Spring and Autumn Period. Some legends say he was born with white hair, having spent eight or eighty years in his mother's womb, which is given as an explanation for his title, which can be both read as "th ...
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| | | | Ananda Coomaraswamy: Encyclopedia II - Traditionalist School - Fundamental tenets The fundamental tenets of this school or philosophy may be stated as follows:
All authentic religious traditions are true, deriving from the Primordial Tradition. Guénon's work draws extensively on Hindu, Taoist, Muslim, Judaic and Christian sources. At first, following certain Hindu schools, he rejected Buddhism as heretical, but Dr. Coomaraswamy, at the instigation of Marco Pallis (a Traditionalist convert to Tibetan Buddhism) demonstrated the essential orthodoxy of Buddhism and its consistency with Vedanta. Guenon, according ...
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| | | | Ananda Coomaraswamy: Encyclopedia II - Frithjof Schuon - God is in the center all paths lead to Him The traditionalist or "perennialist" perspective began to be enunciated in the 1920s by the French philosopher Rene Guenon and, in the 1930s, by the German philosopher Frithjof Schuon. The Harvard orientalist Ananda Coomaraswamy and the Swiss art historian Titus Burckhardt also became prominent advocates of this point of view. Fundamentally, this doctrine is the Sanatana Dharma--the "eternal religion"--of Hindu Vedantists. It was formulated in ancient Greece, in particular, by Plato and later Neoplatonists, and in Christendo ...
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| | | | Ananda Coomaraswamy: Encyclopedia II - Laozi - Popular culture Two books called The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff use the characters and style of Winnie the Pooh to explain Taoism.
In the video game True Crime, developed by Activision, the character ancient Wu says: "Laozi says, if you do not know the plans of your competitors, you cannot make informed alliances".
In Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk, the protagonist's full name is "The Tao Jones".
On the TV show Xena: Warrior Princess, the two-part episode "The Debt" hinged on the conceit that the Dao De Jing was actually written by Laozi' ...
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| | | | Ananda Coomaraswamy: Encyclopedia II - Laozi - Names The name "Laozi" is an honorific. Lao (老) means "venerable" or "old". Zi or Tsu (子) translates literally as "boy", but it was also a term for a rank of nobleman equivalent to viscount, as well as a term of respect attached to the names of revered masters. Thus, "Laozi" can be translated roughly as "the old master".
Laozi's personal name may have been Li Er (李耳, Lǐ Ěr or Li Ehr), his courtesy name may have been Boyang (伯陽), and his posthumous name was Dān, ...
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| | | | Ananda Coomaraswamy: Encyclopedia II - Laozi - Taoism Laozi's work, titled Dao De Jing, is the most significant treatises in Chinese philosophy. It is Laozi's magnum opus, covering many areas of philosophy from individual spirituality and inter-personal dynamics to political techniques.
Laozi developed the concept of "Dao", often translated as "the Way", and widened its meaning to an inherent order or property of the universe: "The way Nature is". He highlighted the concept of wei-wu-wei, or "action through inaction". This does not mean that one should sit around and do not ...
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