Huang Lao Daoism
The Huang-Lao-Daoism ( Chinese 黄老 道 , Pinyin Huang-Lao dao - "Daoism of the Yellow Emperor and Laozi", also: 黄老 学派 , Huang-Lao xuepai - "School of ...") was based on the mythical make Huangdi ( "Yellow Emperor") and Laozi back leading school of Taoism and legalism from the Warring States period and the early Han period .
Huang Lao Daoism was an important school that contributed significantly to the emergence of Daoism. Abandonment of riches and methods of the search for immortality were taught . The art of governing through inaction ( wu wei ) was put into practice by her.
In Shiji ("Record of the Historian"), the philosophers Shen Dao , Tian Pian , Jiezi and Huan Yuan - members of the Jixia Academy - are attributed to her, and the philosophy of Shen Buhai and Han Fei are associated with her.
The works Jingfa ( 经 法 ) and Shiliujing ( 十六 经 ) discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui's Han grave no. 3 are important texts of this school.
literature
- Isabelle Robinet : History of Taoism . Diederichs, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-424-01298-X .
- Randall P. Peerenboom: Law and Morality in Ancient China. The Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao . State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1993, ISBN 0-7914-1237-7 ( SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture ).