RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Monism, Nondualism, Analects

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: G Hori

Document Summary

Lao tzu is one of the two founders of daoism. Possibility that he lived at the time of confucius; legend is that they met. 100 years later, and zhuangzi was born - second founder of. Lao tzu wrote tao te ching - the classic of the way and the. Decided to leave china at the end of his life and went to. The pass keeper asked him to write down his wisdom. In one night he wrote this 5000 character book. Further and further west until he came to india - and he taught daoism but they called it buddhism. Just a way of saying chinese had it first, and that buddhism is inferior. Just because founder lived at time of zhou dynasty doesn"t mean there was a school there. All claimed to have a founder, a single person who lived in the zhou dynasty. When schools of confucianism/daoism actually became formed, they weren"t exclusive.