Yiguandao , meaning the Consistent Way or Persistent Way, is a Chinese religion that emerged from the Xiantiandao group of sects in 1930, in Shandong. Another name of the faith is Zhenli Tiandao ( "True Heavenly Way") or simply Tiandao (天道, "Way of Heaven"). Yiguandao was led by Zhang Tianran, who proclaimed himself as the eighteenth patriarch of the Xiantiandao lineage, among thousands of other sects that thrived since the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911.