However, there is another text that has been attributed to Laozi by some, so I’m including it in this list. The Hua Hu Ching hasn’t been given a date as there is no known ancient text of it, and it does have a distinctive Buddhist flavor, but Hua-Ching Ni asserts that it was ...
One can go on to investigate the true source in the realm of essence, and ascertain the ineffable function of the birthless. Without awaiting another body in the next life, one attains the spiritual capacities of a Buddha in the present; after the Naga Girl achieved this, who since then ...
and occasionally by an emperor. Later, in religious circles, he became the Lord Lao (Lao Jun), revealer of sacred texts and saviour of mankind. There were several stories about his birth, one of which was influenced by the legend of the miraculous birth of Buddha. Laozi’s mother is ...