Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religions (belief systems, cultures)
6. Taoism

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Scope note:

Religion that draws upon Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism as sources for its doctrines and practices. It is a school or sect of religious Taoism founded by Wang Ch'un-yang (1112-1170) in 1163 after he met a hermit claiming to be an incarnation of two of the immortals and from whom he received secret teachings. Ch'uan-yang drew on classic Tao sources as well as on sources outside the Taoist tradition, particularly from Zen Buddhism. Every disciple of this school has the objective of realizing Tao in experience, through understanding his own mind and nature in relation to Tao. The school was favored by the Mongols and its second patriarch, Ch'iu Ch'ang-ch'un, was invited into Central Asia to preach to Genghis Khan. The school was immensely popular and its establishments of celibate monks continued to be active into the 20th century, with the famous White Cloud Monastery at Beijing as headquarters. This particular monastery is of the Lung-men (or Dragon Gate) school, one of the most important of several movements that came out of Ch'üan-chen tao.