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Also known as Classic on converting the barbarians, T. 2139

The Huahujing (also romanized as Hua Hu Ching) is a Taoist work, traditionally attributed to Laozi. No extant versions exist today apart from quotations in a partial manuscript discovered in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, in China.

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Huahujing
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化胡經
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化胡经
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Classic on converting the barbarians
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Huàhújīng
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Hua4 Hu2 Ching1
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hˠuaH ɦuo keŋ

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6 sections
Contents
  • Origins
  • Destruction of copies
  • Dunhuang manuscript
  • References
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

The Huahujing (also romanized as Hua Hu Ching) is a Taoist work, traditionally attributed to Laozi. No extant versions exist today apart from quotations in a partial manuscript discovered in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, in China.

==Origins== The work is honorifically known as the Taishang lingbao Laozi huahu miaojing (, "The Supreme Numinous Treasure's Sublime Classic on Laozi's Conversion of the Barbarians").

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huahujing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.