Tianguangdao (天光道 "Way of the Heavenly Light") is a Chinese folk religious sect that as of the 1980s was a proscribed religion in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Particularly active in Heilongjiang and Anhui, there are records of detentions of leaders and members easpecially from the former province.

History

Wang Xianyao, a school teacher who became a leader of the Tianguangdao, was arrested in Heilongjiang in the early 1980s. His fate is unknown. According to official report, he was a teacher at the Xingtong Middle School of Wanjinshan Commune in Baode County. At the time of the arrest he was 32 years old and college-educated. Zhang Desheng, another Tianguangdao leader, was arrested in Baoqing County of Heilongjiang in the 1980s. In Anhui the sect instituted a system of financial rewarding for every member who would have converted new people.

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* ** List first published in: {{cite journal , title = Appendix: Sects and Societies Recently or Currently Active in the PRC , journal = Chinese Sociology & Anthropology , volume = 21 , issue = 4 , pages = 103–104 , date = 1989 , doi = 10.2753/CSA0009-46252104102 Chinese salvationist religions

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