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Books by Laozi

Laozi (literally "Old Master") is the traditional author of the Tao Te Ching and a semi-legendary figure in Chinese history, said to have been an archivist in the Zhou dynasty court before departing westward through the mountain pass, leaving behind the text at the request of the gatekeeper. Modern scholarship dates the text to the 4th to 3rd century BCE and regards it as a compilation. The Tao Te Ching is the foundational text of Taoism and one of the most translated books in human history, second only to the Bible by most counts.