# Way of Great Peace · The Cult Dossier · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Cult Dossier · No. 133 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
Way of Great Peace
Taiping Dao; the Yellow Turban Rebellion
c.170 – 205 CE · Northern and eastern China (Han dynasty)
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — millenarian Daoist movement
### 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
- c.170s CE Zhang Jue begins healing and preaching; builds a following across eight provinces.
- MARCH 184 CE The JIAZI year, the start of a new sexagenary cycle: THE AZURE SKY IS ALREADY DEAD, THE YELLOW SKY WILL SOON RISE. The rising breaks out with some 360,000 followers in yellow headscarves.
- 184 CE Zhang Jue dies of illness during the campaign; his brothers are killed.
- 185–205 CE The main rising is broken within a year, but it takes TWENTY-ONE YEARS to put down the successor risings, finishing only in 205.
- 220 CE The Han dynasty falls, fatally weakened by the rising and by the warlords empowered to crush it.
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