Lingbao Tianzun

Chinese · deity · primordial · deity

He is a scripture that became a person. The Lingbao corpus is one of the two great bodies of Daoist revealed text, and the deity who holds the second Purity is that body of writing given a face and a heaven — which is an unusual thing for a god to be, and worth recording as what it is rather than flattening into 'creator deity, second rank'.