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Originally Posted by Glice
I may be off on a limb here, but wasn't the Tao Te Ching lost and re-written sometime in the AD era? I seem to remember that from studying it a few years ago... Perhaps not as recently as AD, but I do seem to remember it was restructured after it was banned in one of China's many political upheavals...
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It's not absolutely certain, as I understand it.
Lao Tzu lived roughly 580-500 BC (or he was born anywhere around 600-300BC), but some scholars believe the text to predate him by several centuries.