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Zhang Tianran | |||||||||
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張天然 | |||||||||
Title | 18th Taoist Patriarch (Yiguandao) | ||||||||
Personal | |||||||||
Born | Kui Sheng 8 August 1889 | ||||||||
Died | 29 September 1947 | (aged 58)||||||||
Resting place | Hangzhou | ||||||||
Religion | Taoism | ||||||||
Partner | Sun Suzhen | ||||||||
Children | 12 | ||||||||
Sect | Yiguandao | ||||||||
Senior posting | |||||||||
Period in office | 1930 – 1947 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Lu Zhongyi | ||||||||
Successor | Sun Suzhen | ||||||||
Reincarnation | Ji Gong | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 張天然 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 張天然 | ||||||||
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Zhang Tianran (Chinese: 張天然; 8 August 1889 – 29 September 1947), born Kui Sheng (Chinese: 奎生), was the eighteenth patriarch of the Yiguandao religious sect. He is usually referred to as the Father of Yiguandao, or as Shi Zun (師尊), meaning the Honored Teacher.