Wang Chongyang (reference article)

This Wikipedia article on Wang Chongyang, founder of the Quanzhen school of Daoism, is a tertiary reference summarizing his traditional biography, his conversion after a reported encounter with immortals, his synthesis of Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian elements into a single ascetic program, and his role training the Seven Perfected who spread Quanzhen teaching across northern China after his death. As with any crowd-edited encyclopedia entry on a medieval religious founder, it draws on a mixture of hagiographic tradition and modern scholarship whose own findings are still developing, and it is best used to orient basic facts, dates and lineage rather than to settle finer questions about which elements of Wang's traditional biography are historically secure versus later hagiographic elaboration, a distinction specialist studies of early Quanzhen Daoism are considerably better equipped to draw with confidence.