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On the Origin of “Laozi Converting the Barbarians”: A Historical Background Analysis
Religions, 2023 This article examines the historical background of “Laozi huahu 老子化胡” (Laozi converting the barbarians) and investigates its generation mode and constituent elements.
Jiamin Si, Jishao Han, Yuan Zhang
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The LATAM’s Laozi: The Reception and Interpretations of the Laozi in Latin America
Religions, 2022 The Laozi has a long and variegated exegetical history inside and outside of China. This history shows the flexibility of a text that is always able to transform and adapt to the specific cultural context and historical period in which it emerges. Due to
Filippo Costantini
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Abnormalities and Return: An Exploration of the Concept Fan 反 in the Laozi
Religions, 2019 Laozi’s concept of fan反has many different interpretations. However, except for the fan character in chapter seventy-eight which says “appropriate language seems contradictory (fan反)” where it obviously refers to contradictions or opposites (xiangfan相反 ...
Zhongjiang Wang
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Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2019 The power-technical aspects and the methods of governance of Laozi’s work are the less widely discussed topics of sinological literature on classical Chinese philosophy.
Endre Ladjánszky
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Experiencing Maze (Taste) and Namaze (Untaste) [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2021 This article used a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the introvertive and extrovertive mystical experiences of Baha Walad and Laozi, based on the views of Walter Stace.
Aliasghar Bagheri +1 more
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A study on the ecological philosophy of Laozi
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 The eco-environmental problems have become a hot topic of global concern today. Many scholars seek intellectual resources from traditional cultures to solve these problems. This article tries to extract the rich ecological thoughts from the text of Laozi.
Zhicheng Wang
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Taiyi: The Axis of Philosophy of the Laozi
Religions, 2023 Taiyi 太一, the void and dark central region of the celestial sphere, carries symbolic implications that resonate with the essence of ultimate reality in the philosophical framework of the Laozi 老子.
Yongfeng Huang, Zhikun Li
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Religions, 2022 Cheng Xuanying’s Expository Commentary to the Daode jing presents the Laozi as the origin of Daoism—a Daoism which, by his time in the seventh century, included many beliefs and concepts coopted from Buddhism.
Friederike Assandri
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Religions, 2022 Wang Bi’s work is often used as evidence for “Confucian” interpretations and translations of the Laozi. Those who argue that the explicit rejections of Confucian values in chapters 5, 18, 19, and 38 should actually be read as admonishing hollow imitation
Paul Joseph D’Ambrosio
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The Hierarchy of Authorship in the Hermeneutics of the Daodejing
Religions, 2022 The question of the authorship of the Daodejing, otherwise known as the Laozi, is a hotly contested debate, and one’s stance on the existence and role of the author can have potential implications for one’s interpretation of the text. This paper explores
Daniel Sarafinas
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