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The Cult Dossier · No. 134 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
White Lotus
Bailianjiao
c.12th c. – 19th c. · China
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — Buddhist-derived millenarian tradition
### 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.1133 Mao Ziyuan founds a devotional lay Buddhist society.
- 1351 THE RED TURBAN REBELLION begins under Han Shantong; it topples the Mongol Yuan dynasty.
- 1368 Zhu Yuanzhang, a former Red Turban, founds the Ming dynasty — and outlaws the tradition.
- 1796–1804 THE WHITE LOTUS REBELLION against the Qing — eight years of war across Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and neighbouring country, ENDING THE BELIEF THAT MANCHU ARMS WERE UNBEATABLE and draining a treasury that never recovered. The Qing had to rely on Han recruits and local mercenaries to finish it.
- 19th c. Successor movements feed into the Eight Trigrams rising and eventually the Boxers.
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