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Daoyuan
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Also known as Tao Yuan

Guiyidao is a Chinese folk religious movement of salvation belonging to the Xiantiandao ("Way of Former Heaven") tradition. It is better known as Precosmic Salvationism in contemporary Taiwan, and historically also known by the name of its institutions as Daodeshe, Guiyi Daoyuan or later Daoyuan.

Key facts

Religion.name
Way of the Return to the One皈依道 Guīyīdào
Religion.image
File:Guiyidaoyuan.svg
Religion.imagewidth
100px
Religion.other_names
Daodeshe, Guiyi Daoyuan, Daoyuan, Precosmic Salvationism
Religion.type
Way of Former Heaven sect
Religion.main_classification
Chinese salvationist religion
Religion.founder
Liu Shoji
Religion.founded_date
1916
Religion.founded_place
Shandong
Religion.members
1937: 7–10 million

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inception
1916-00-00
Commons category
Daoyuan
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Japanese developments
  • After 1949
  • The Red Swastika Society
  • See also
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • General sources
  • External links

Guiyidao is a Chinese folk religious movement of salvation belonging to the Xiantiandao ("Way of Former Heaven") tradition. It is better known as Precosmic Salvationism in contemporary Taiwan, and historically also known by the name of its institutions as Daodeshe, Guiyi Daoyuan or later Daoyuan.

Similarly to other Xiantiandao sects, Guiyidao is focused on the worship of the universal God (Tian), which it defines as the Holiest Venerable Patriarch of the Primordial Heaven (Zhisheng Xiantian Laozu), as the source of salvation.

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

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