Huang-Lao
A tradition no longer extant within Taoism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Huang-Lao is recorded within Taoism and is no longer extant. Also written 黃老, Way of the Yellow Emperor and Laozi.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. No founding date in my sources. Current in the early Han, 2nd century BCE, per the Stanford Encyclopedia, which describes it as 'the name under which one part of the tradition was known' rather than a founded organisation. No founder is named.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Huang-Lao.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-huang-lao.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Huang-Lao},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-huang-lao},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.