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June 2024

June 20, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: Christianity and Chinese Sects

The return of the Catholic Church to China began with the Jesuits. In the last...

May 2024

May 16, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Qing Dynasty and After

The greatest indicator of the Longhua jing’s success was the new group consciousness that...

May 15, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Longhua Jing

As the Ming era wound down, the Three Ages sects continued to evolve. There...

May 02, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Huangtian Jiao

The Huangtian dao (黄天道—Way of the Yellow Heaven) or Huangtian jiao (黄天教—Teaching of the...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: Zhaijiao and Hongyang

It did not take long for the synthesis of Three-Ages, Luoist, and divine Mother beliefs...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Jiulian Baojuan

The transformative effect of the recent developments in sectarianism—Patriarch Luo’s teachings and the adoption...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

The Third Age Dawns in China: The Huangji Jieguo Baojuan

The Ming period was the golden age of sectarian thought in imperial China. Religious...

February 14, 2024

Systems of Time in Chinese Eschatology

We have discussed in detail how much of Buddhist eschatology in China was simply a...

January 2024

January 22, 2024

Popular Themes in Chinese Eschatology

By the time that Zhu Yuanzhang rode to the imperial throne on the back of...

January 20, 2024

China’s Buddhist Messiahs: Prince Moonlight and Maitreya

Before we can adequately discuss the nature of this popular sectarianism and its own...