釋氏稽古略 1.363

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老子　姓李氏。名聃。字伯陽。聃諡也。定王三年丁巳九月十四日生楚國陳郡苦縣賴鄉曲仁里。聃之生也。釋迦文佛入滅已三百四十六年矣。簡王四年己卯。伯陽年二十三。仕周為守藏吏。十三年遷柱下史。自是五十四年不遷時人目為吏隱。敬王元年壬午。老子年八十六歲。去周與散關（今陝西興元路鳳州）。令尹喜西遊流沙。而死於扶風郡。葬槐里（今陝西安西路興平縣也）。

Laozi: His surname was Li, his given name Dan, and his courtesy name Boyang; 'Dan' was his posthumous name. On the fourteenth day of the ninth month in the third year of King Ding, a ding-si year, he was born in Quren Hamlet, Lai Village, Ku County, Chen Commandery, in the state of Chu. When Dan was born, Śākyamuni Buddha had already entered extinction three hundred and forty-six years before. In the fourth year of King Jian, a ji-mao year, Boyang was twenty-three years old and served Zhou as the archivist of the royal treasury. In the thirteenth year he was promoted to scribe under the pillar. Thereafter for fifty-four years he was not promoted, and contemporaries regarded him as an official hermit. In the first year of King Jing, a ren-wu year, Laozi was eighty-six years old; he departed Zhou via Sanguan Pass (now Fengzhou, Xingyuan Route, Shaanxi). Accompanied by the magistrate Yin Xi, he journeyed west to the Flowing Sands and died in Fufeng Commandery, being buried in Huaili (now Xingping County, Anxi Route, Shaanxi).