Case file · Folklore / legend

Laozi vanishes beyond the Hangu Pass

In Sima Qian's account the sage Laozi wrote the Tao Te Ching for the pass-keeper Yinxi and rode west on an ox, and 'no one knows where he ended'.

500 BCE · 34.64, 110.89 · status: legend

The account

Later Taoist tradition made him an immortal, and some said he went on to teach in India.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Laozi
  2. Wikipedia: Hangu Pass
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