Boyang
deity Taoist single tradition · 1
Boyang is the courtesy name of Laozi. The character 陽 is yang, the solar and masculine life force in Taoist belief.
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“Laozi is recorded bearing the courtesy name Boyang (伯陽, Bóyáng), whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *pˤrak laŋ. The character 伯 was the title of the eldest son born to the primary wife, or an uncle of the father's family who was older than one's father”
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