![]() Some scholars believe it is a forgery because there are no historical references to it until the early 4th century CE. The Taoists are sometimes claimed to have developed the Huahujing to support one of their favourite arguments against the Buddhists: that after leaving China to the West, Laozi had travelled as far as India, where he had converted-or even become-the Buddha and thus Buddhism had been created as a somewhat distorted offshoot of Taoism. ![]() Traditionally, it is said that Laozi wrote it with the intention of converting Buddhists to Taoism, when they began to cross over from India. ![]() The work is honorifically known as the Taishang lingbao Laozi huahu miaojing ( 太上靈寶老子化胡妙經, "The Supreme Numinous Treasure's Sublime Classic on Laozi's Conversion of the Barbarians"). ![]()
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