Figure East Asian traditions
Zhang Daoling
张道陵 zh 張陵 ja 장도릉 ko
Legendary Han dynasty Chinese Taoist leader, grandfather of Zhang Lu
- Child of 张大顺
- Dated 34 CE – 156 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
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Family
The family of Zhang Daoling
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 2
Family 2
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 1 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.
1 recorded statement points at a record with no English name anywhere, so it is counted here rather than drawn.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
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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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