Zhendadao

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Zhendadao

Daoist sect

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Taoism
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1140 by Xiao Baozhen; the Zhendadao (“Perfect and Great Tao”) sect of Liu Deren (1142); and the Quanzhen (“Perfect Realization”) sect, founded in 1163 by Wang Chongyang (Wang Zhe). This last sect came to the favorable attention of the Mongols, who had taken over in the North, and its second…
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1140 by Xiao Baozhen; the Zhendadao (“Perfect and Great Tao”) sect of Liu Deren (1142); and the Quanzhen (“Perfect Realization”) sect, founded in 1163 by Wang Chongyang (Wang Zhe). This last sect came to the favorable attention of the Mongols, who had taken over in the North, and its second…
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