Zhang Daoling
Chinese · mortal · han · Recorded classification
A dated founding for a religion that is usually treated as having none. 142 CE, Mount Heming, a specific text handed over and a specific claim made — that the old gods had been dismissed and a new administration installed. The movement he began taxed its members five pecks of rice, ran a small state in Sichuan, and passed its office down a family line that still holds it. The registry held a great deal of Daoist material and not the man who organised it.
Domains
- religious founder
- revelation
Relations
- student of: Daode TianzunThe whole of organised Daoism descends from this one reported conversation.Reference treatment of the revelation of Taishang Laojun, the deified Laozi, to Zhang Daoling in 142 CE. (secondary)
Sources
- Zhang Daoling received the revelation of Taishang Laojun on Mount Heming in 142 CE, was made the first Celestial Master, and founded the Way of the Celestial Masters, the beginning of organised religious Daoism.: Reference treatments of Zhang Daoling, the 142 revelation and the Way of the Celestial Masters. (secondary)