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Gan Zhongke

Chinese prophet

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Daoism

In Taoism: Revolutionary messianism
…court had been a certain Gan Zhongke. At the end of the 1st century bce, he presented to the emperor a “Classic of the Great Peace” (Taipingjing) that he claimed had been revealed to him by a spirit, who had come to him with the order to renew the Han…
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