Note 337 — Chapter XV · TAOISM, LOCAL DEITIES, TREE-WORSHIP
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Mr. T. W. Kingsmill (The Taoteh King) calls it "one of the few remains existing of primitive Buddhism." He points out that as there is no intimation of any intercourse between China and India before the Han period, the compilation of the Tao Tê Ching must be assigned to that age,—several hundred years after the supposed date of Lao Tzŭ.