Two large religious orders of the Chinese world: the Celestial Masters, the hereditary Daoist order of the Zhang family line, and Fo Guang Shan, the Taiwanese Buddhist monastic order. An order belongs here when its cited article describes a Daoist or Chinese Buddhist order with monastics or lineage holders. It excludes Indian and Western orders, which have their own groups. A later fill lane places an entity here only when a source states that membership in words.
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Fo Guang Shan (Wikipedia)
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Fo Guang Shan (FGS; Chinese: 佛光山; pinyin: Fó guāng shān; lit. 'Buddha's Light Mountain') is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order based in Taiwan that practices Humanistic Buddhism whose roots are traced to the Linji school of Chan Buddhism.
Way of the Celestial Masters (Wikipedia)
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The Way of the Celestial Masters or the Heavenly Masters Sect is a Chinese Taoist movement that was founded by Zhang Daoling in 142 AD.
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