James D. SELLMANN
Historical wood-block print of Laozi.
Laozi is the name of the foundational text of Daoist philosophy and religion. The name “Laozi” also refers to the supposed author of that text.
Laozi, a book also known as The Way and Its Power (Daodejing, Tao te ching) or The Book of Five-Thousand Characters (because it contains a little more than that number of Chinese characters), refers to the text that set forth
