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The Tiandi teachings or teachings of the Heaven God () are salvation sects of the Chinese traditional religion, encompassing two branches, Tiandi and Tiande (, "Heavenly Virtue"), emerged from the teachings of Xiao Changming and Li Yujie, disseminated in the early 20th century.〔Vermander, 1999.〕 Tiandi is actually a later sprout of Tiande, established in the 1980s.〔 These religions focus on the worship of ''Tiandi'' (), the "Heavely God" or "Heavenly Emperor",〔 on health through the proper cultivation of qi,〔 and teach a style of qigong named ''Tianren qigong''.〔Micollier, 1998.〕 According to scholars, the Tiandi teachings derive from the Taoist tradition of Huashan,〔Ju Keyi, Lu Xianlong. 2014. p. 195〕 where Li Yujie studied for eight years.〔Palmer, 2011. p. 27〕 The Tiandi Church is very active both in Taiwan and mainland China, where it has high-level links.〔 ==''Tiande'': Heavenly Virtue== The origins of the Tiande teaching (, also simply 天德教 ''Tiāndéjiāo'') go back to Sichuan in 1899, with the alleged resurrection of a young boy named Xiao Changming (蕭昌明, 1896-1943) who had apparently died three days earlier. After his revival, he declared that he had received Heaven's mandate (''tianming'') to save humanity from suffering. He embarked on a successful religious career and attracted a large following. In 1937 he established his headquarters on Mount Huang in southern Anhui province where he died in 1943. Like other sects, Xiao Changming's movement was suppressed in China after 1949, but survives in Taiwan and Hong Kong. In Taiwan, one of Xiao's disciples, Li Yujie, eventually decided to walk his own path and founded a new group called the Church of the Heaven God in 1978, which diverges doctrinally in several aspects from the mother group, yet also sees itself in the tradition of Xiao Changming's teachings. Currently, there exist two regional sets of organizations for this religion. Its Hong Kong headquarters is located at Castle Peak in the New Territories. In Taiwan the religion's situation is characterized by disunity, with several separate organizations claiming to continue the original Xiao's teachings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tiandi teachings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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