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Picture 1. Laozi. Painting by Fachang Muchi, early 13th century.
Picture 2. Laozi on his buffalo, holding the manuscript of the Daode jing (Book of the Way and Its Virtue) in his hands. Painting by Zhang Lu, ca. 1490–1563.
Picture 3. Laozi represented as a deity. Late 7th–early 8th century.
Picture 4. Laozi represented as a deity. Dated 515 CE.
Picture 5. Laozi represented as a deity. Dated 564 CE.
Picture 3. Daode tianzun (Celestial Venerable of the Dao and Its Virtue), the third of the Three Clarities. (This is Laozi in his divine form.)
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A concise but comprehensive introduction to Taoist thought and religion, treating them not as separate domains but as two inseparable aspects of a single tradition. Early texts, history, cosmos and human being, and main practices, including External and Internal Alchemy.
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