Wang Hao-te

Wang Hao De
Names
Known in English as:	Wang Hao De
Chinese:	王好德
Hanyu Pinyin:	Wáng Hǎodé
Wade-Giles:	Wang Hao-te
Family name:	Wang
Chinese:	王
Given	names
	Haode (好德)
Courtesy name :	Gaoshan (高山)
Pseudonym :	Gaoshan Yuren (高山愚人)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Hao-te (1921 – 1999) is the founder of the Maitreya Great Tao religion (Chinese: 彌勒大道; pinyin: Mílè Dà Dào), which is based in Hsin Chu, Taiwan. This sect according to Taiwan's survey in 2004 has 100,000 members and 2000 temples. 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. He moved to Taiwan as a businessman. He was introduced and initiated to the I-Kuan Tao sect in 1948. He appeared to be a talented businessman and he was entrusted to take care of Sun Su Zhen or "Shi Mu" 師母, the great mistress of I-Kuan Tao. According to his believers Wang served as aide to Shi Mu for 11 years until her death in 1975.

In 1987 Wang set up the Providence Maitreya Buddha Institute (Chinese: 天恩彌勒佛院; pinyin: Tiān'ēn Mílè Fó Yuàn) in Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Wang died in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1999. Maitreya Great Tao has a large number of follower across more than 60 countries all over the world. Maitreya Great Tao's latest project is to built a bronze statue of Maitreya in Hsin Chu, with a height of 72 m.

See also

• I-Kuan Tao
• Zhang Tian Ran
• Sun Su Zhen

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 De according to his follower

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Name	Wang, Hao-te
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Date of birth	August 31, 1921
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Date of death	1999
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