Deity Three Pure Ones
Yuanshi Tianzun
元始天尊 zh 원시천존 ko
Taoist deity
- Also called Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning, Primeval Lord of Heaven
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Accounts
Where Yuanshi Tianzun appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
Later works
Later works that name Yuanshi Tianzun
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not accounts of it.
What this means
Sorted out of the accounts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the accounts. None of these supplies the earliest account.
Connections
How Yuanshi Tianzun connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
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
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 17
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
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- studied under Hongjun Laozu Taoist deity
- taught Chijingzi deity
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taught Cihang Daoren Investiture of the Gods character - taught Daohang Tianzun Investiture of the Gods character
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taught Guangchengzi deity - taught Huanglong Zhenren Investiture of the Gods character
- taught Juliusun Investiture of the Gods character
- taught Lingbao Dafashi Investiture of the Gods character
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taught Old Man of the South Pole Taoist deification of Canopus, the brightest star of the constellation Carina; symbolizes happiness and longevity
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taught Puxian Zhenren Investiture of the Gods character - taught Qingxu Daode Zhenjun Investiture of the Gods character
- taught Randeng Daoren Investiture of the Gods character
- taught Shen Gongbao Investiture of the Gods character
- taught Taiyi Zhenren Investiture of the Gods character
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taught Wenshu Guangfa Tianzun Investiture of the Gods character - taught Yuding Zhenren Investiture of the Gods character
- taught Yunzhongzi Investiture of the Gods character
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
20 statements on this record
- 17 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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