WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Consensus suggests it was written around 400BC by one Laozi. Laozi translates simply as “old master” – a hint that the author’s (or authors’) true name has been lost for ever. Tao Te Ching translates very roughly as “the way of integrity".

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have miraculously survived intact since 300 B.C., the “Guodian Laozi, ‘’ is by far the earliest version of the Tao Te Ching ever unearthed.