Daoism · Communities & events
Wang Chongyang gathers a Quanzhen community
1167–1168 CE
Wang Chongyang came to Shandong and gathered disciples around an ascetic approach to religious cultivation. The emerging Quanzhen community included householders who made consequential changes to their lives. Its early history involved local relationships, hermitages, and differing patterns of discipleship.
Why it matters
The movement developed through communities as well as charismatic teachers, later becoming a major institutional form of Daoism in northern China.
About the date
Shandong teaching phase; earlier Shaanxi communities also contributed to Quanzhen’s emergence.
Shandong
Regional orientation for Wang’s early disciples.
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