Wang Hao-te (1921–1999) was the founder of the Great Way of Maitreya (), which is based in

Hsinchu Hsinchu (, Chinese: 新竹, Pinyin: ''Xīnzhú'', Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a city located in northwestern Taiwan. It is the most populous city in Taiwan Province not among the special municipalities, with estimated 450,655 inhabi ...

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. According to a survey done in 2004, this religion has 1,000,000 members and 2,000 temples all over the world. Wang was born in 1921, the 28th day of the 7th lunar month (August 31, 1921) in a small village called Zhang Gu in Shandong province, China. He went to Taiwan when he was 17 years old during the Second World War, and he was introduced to

Yiguandao Yiguandao / I-Kuan Tao (),; ko, 일관도, Ilgwando; th, อนุตตรธรรม, . meaning the Consistent Way or Persistent Way, is a Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged in the late 19th century, in Shandong, to become C ...

in 1948 by chance. He was a hardworking, well loved and down-to-earth talented young man and he was the only person appointed to take care of Sun Su Zhen, or "Shi Mu" 師母, the great mistress of Yiguandao, for 11 years until her death on 4 April 1975. In 1987, Wang set up the Providence Maitreya Buddha Institute () in

, Taiwan. Wang died of CO₂ poisoning on Christmas Day in 1999 during his mission to Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Sources

*Clart, Philip. 2000. Opening the Wilderness for the Way of Heaven: A Chinese New Religion in the Greater Vancouver Area. Journal of Chinese Religions 28: 127-144 *Soo, Khin Wah. 1997. A Study of the Yiguan Dao (Unity Sect) and its Development in Peninsular Malaysia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia.
台灣地區宗教簡介: 彌勒大道 ''Introduction to religions in the Taiwan territory: Maitreya Great Tao''
Department of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Interior, Republic of China. 2001. Accessed February 7, 2006.

External links

Maitreya Great Tao website

The Life of Wang Hao Te according to his follower
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Hao-te 1921 births 1999 deaths Chinese religious leaders Founders of new religious movements People from Shandong Yiguandao

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