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.