Figure Deity Eight Immortals
Lü Dongbin
吕洞宾 zh 呂洞賓 ja 여동빈 ko
Chinese Taoist scholar and poet during the Tang Dynasty
- Child of Lv Rang
- Dated 796 CE – c. 870 CE
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Family
The family of Lü Dongbin
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 1
Kinship in an account 1
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts
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Connections
How Lü Dongbin connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
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Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply biological ancestry · institutional succession · agreement between teacher and student
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Sources
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