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Unidentified Artist; In the Style of Li Gonglin (Chinese, c. 1041–1106)  · CC0

Tradition Institution East Asian traditions

White Lotus

白蓮教 zh 백련교 ko

Religious and political movement

  • Dated from 13th century CE
  • Also called Bailianism

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Branches and affiliations

Many paths. Shared histories.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Recorded as a branch of

White Lotus Religious and political movement

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Connections

How White Lotus connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Succession in office 1

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

2 statements on this record

  • 2 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

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
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.

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞; b. 1786, d. 1865) · Public domain

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