The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lao-tse
Lao-tse \Lao-tse\, Laozi \Laozi\prop. n. A Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism in the 6th-century b.c.
Syn: Lao-Tzu, Lao-Tse.
Usage examples of "lao-tse".
Not only was it the time of Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras and others in Ionia, but also the time of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho who caused Africa to be circumnavigated, of Zoroaster in Persia, Confucius and Lao-tse in China, the Jewish prophets in Israel, Egypt and Babylon, and Gautama Buddha in India.
It was used by Lao-Tse and Buddha some 500 or 600 years before Christ, but it is not a principle which as a matter of fact Christians accept.