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The Cult Dossier · No. 132 · Eastern-Derived
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
Way of the Celestial Masters; Tianshi Dao
142 – 215 CE (lineage continues) · Sichuan and Hanzhong, China
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — the founding organised Daoist church
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 142 CE Zhang Daoling's revelation on Mount Heming.
- 191–215 CE Zhang Lu governs the independent theocratic state of Hanzhong, run through parishes with its own officials and free rest-houses for travellers.
- 215 CE Surrenders to the warlord Cao Cao AND IS REWARDED WITH A TITLE AND LAND, as are members of his family. The movement is absorbed rather than destroyed, and its people are resettled across China, which spreads it.
- 4th–5th c. CE Reformed into the mainstream of institutional Daoism.
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