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| Keywords: statue lao tzu laotzu taoism table top photography tabletopphotography anchorage, alaska anchoragealaska Well, as you can see, I've given up! No Winter so I'm coming indoors and doing something I've never done before: table top photography! Remember, this is my first such photograph so please try not to laugh too hard. :) For the tiny percentage of viewers who might be interested in what this old man is doing on a water buffalo, this is the Chinese Philosopher, Lao Tzu. He lived during the 5th and 6th century BC (died in 531 BC) and wrote a "book," a series of 81 chapters, that is called "The Tao te Ching." The "Tao te Ching" is the second most translated book in the world after the Christian Bible. The followers of Lao Tzu are called "Taoists" and their belief system is called "Taoism." It's not exactly a "religion," although there was a Chinese religion that developed later in history and is called "Religious Taoism" today but has only a tenuous connection to Philosophical Taoism and the "Tao te Ching." OK, OK, I'll stop! If you read this far, you have great stamina. May you live 1,000 years! Well, as you can see, I've given up! No Winter so I'm coming indoors and doing something I've never done before: table top photography! Remember, this is my first such photograph so please try not to laugh too hard. :) For the tiny percentage of viewers who might be interested in what this old man is doing on a water buffalo, this is the Chinese Philosopher, Lao Tzu. He lived during the 5th and 6th century BC (died in 531 BC) and wrote a "book," a series of 81 chapters, that is called "The Tao te Ching." The "Tao te Ching" is the second most translated book in the world after the Christian Bible. The followers of Lao Tzu are called "Taoists" and their belief system is called "Taoism." It's not exactly a "religion," although there was a Chinese religion that developed later in history and is called "Religious Taoism" today but has only a tenuous connection to Philosophical Taoism and the "Tao te Ching." OK, OK, I'll stop! If you read this far, you have great stamina. May you live 1,000 years! | ||||
