【英汉对照佛学词典】

老子化胡经


Laozi Huahu jing (Sutra on the Conversion of the Barbarians); By Wang Fu 王浮. This text claimed that after his disappearance, Laozi went to India, converted people there, and became the Buddha. An early Chinese apocryphal sutra, written by a Taoist for the purpose of discrediting Buddhism and elevating Taoism. Texts such as this which were usually discovered by early Buddhist canonical catalogers and eventually rejected.