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	E. East Asia, 1793-1914. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The WHITE LOTUS REBELLION, led by a millenarian Buddhist sect that believed in the return of the Buddha, erupted out of social and economic discontent in the north.
		A millenarian religious group, the Tianli Sect, rose in rebellion and invaded the imperial palaces in Beijing, before being suppressed.
		The illicit trade in opium, 5,000 chests annually (despite imperial prohibitions of 1800 and 1813), was transferred to Lintin Island near Guangzhou.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1415.html (691 words)

	AllRefer.com - White Lotus Rebellion (Chinese And Taiwanese History) - Encyclopedia
		White Lotus Rebellion, Chinese anti-Manchu uprising that occurred during the Ch'ing dynasty.
		It apparently began as a tax protest led by the White Lotus Society, a secret religious society that forecast the advent of the Buddha, advocated restoration of the native Chinese Ming dynasty, and promised personal salvation to its followers.
		Although the Manchu finally crushed (1804) the rebellion, the myth of the military invincibility of the Manchu was shattered, perhaps contributing to the greater frequency of rebellions in the 19th cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WhiteLot.html (315 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Politics :: Rebellion and Revolution :: The White Lotus Rebellion
		White Lotus (Pai-lien chiao) sectarianism appealed to Chinese, most notably to women and to the poor, who found solace in worship of the Eternal Mother who was to gather all her children at the millennium into one family.
		The doctrine of the White Lotus includes an alleged forecast to the advent of the Buddha.
		The end of the White Lotus Rebellion in 1804 also brought an end to the myth of military invincibility of the Manchu, perhaps contributing to the greater frequency of rebellions in the 19th century.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/03pol/c03s03.html (797 words)

	The White Lotus Religion in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		One must also distinguish between the White Lotus societies that were political and nationalistic militias having as little connection with the religion.
		The White Lotus religious groups initially engaged only in chanting or reciting Buddhist sutras or some things akin to sutras which were supposed to clear the adherents souls and prepare them for entry into the Pure Land (Nirvana).
		The Nien Rebellion picked up remnants of the Taiping Rebellion after the Taipings were defeated in 1864, but with the defeat of the Taipings the government could bring the full strength of its army against the Niens.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/whitelotus.htm (487 words)

	The White Lotus Society
		Of all of these societies, the White Lotus Society is perhaps the most well-interesting for, so some people claim, it may be the original society that has continued its secret activities for hundreds of years and of which all the others are just offshoots.
		This rebellion was attributed to the White Lotus Society and it soon took on the millenarian ideas that had long been associated with the Society.
		The White Lotus rebellion of the end of the eighteenth century was eventually ended by the imperial military.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/east_asian_history/107454 (576 words)

	Qing Decline 1799-1875 by Sanderson Beck
		The White Lotus movement goes back to efforts in the 13th century against invading Mongols and the rebellions in the 14th century that overthrew the Yuan dynasty.
		In 1796 the rebellion coalesced with a Miao uprising and spread from central China to Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Henan.
		In 1836 Lan Zhengzun led Yao tribes in a White Lotus revolt in southern Hunan that was suppressed.
	www.san.beck.org /3-9-QingDecline1799-1875.html (15946 words)

	White Lotus Rebellion - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		White Lotus Rebellion Chinese anti-Manchu uprising that occurred during the Ch'ing dynasty.
		It apparently began as a tax protest led by the White Lotus Society, a secret religious society that forecast the advent of the Buddha, advocated restoration of the native Chinese Ming dynasty, and promised personal salvation to its followers.
		Although the Manchu finally crushed (1804) the rebellion, the myth of the military invincibility of the Manchu was shattered, perhaps contributing to the greater frequency of rebellions in the 19th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-WhiteLot.html (417 words)

	White Lotus
		The anti-Manchu rebellion was partly against the corrupt Qing (Ch'ing) administration of the courtier Hexian (Ho-shen).
		White Lotus was an ancient Secret Society which, as a sect of Tiantai Buddhism, went back as far as the Song (Sung) dynasty or even earlier.
		The White Lotus school was an association of monks, nuns, and laypersons, whose objective was by regularly invoking the Buddha Amitabha...
	oook.info /easia/lotus.html (596 words)

	White Lotus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White Lotus (白蓮教 Pinyin: báiliánjiào Wade-Giles: Pai-lien chiao) is a type of Buddhist sectarianism that appealed to many Chinese, most notably to women and to the poor, who found solace in worship of the Eternal Mother who was to gather all her children at the millennium into one family.
		The doctrine of the White Lotus included a forecast of the imminent advent of the future Buddha Maitreya.
		The White Lotus reemerged in the late 18th century in the form of an inspired Chinese movement to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, led by Wang Lun, a master of martial arts and herbal medicine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Lotus (901 words)

	White Lotus Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White Lotus Rebellion was a Chinese anti-Manchu uprising that occurred during the Qing dynasty.
		It apparently began as a tax protest led by the White Lotus Society, a secret religious society that forecast the advent of Maitreya, advocated restoration of the native Chinese Ming dynasty, and promised personal salvation to its followers.
		Although the Manchu finally crushed the rebellion in 1804, the myth of the military invincibility of the Manchus was shattered, perhaps contributing to the greater frequency of rebellions in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion (263 words)

	The White Lotus Religion in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		One must also distinguish between the White Lotus societies that were political and nationalistic militias having as little connection with the religion.
		The White Lotus religious groups initially engaged only in chanting or reciting Buddhist sutras or some things akin to sutras which were supposed to clear the adherents souls and prepare them for entry into the Pure Land (Nirvana).
		The Nien Rebellion picked up remnants of the Taiping Rebellion after the Taipings were defeated in 1864, but with the defeat of the Taipings the government could bring the full strength of its army against the Niens.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/whitelotus.htm (487 words)

	UNHCR - China: The Bai Lian Jiao religion (also known as the White Lotus), including its god, Lian Hoaniannian, and the ...
		The White Lotus sects successfully launched a rebellion against the Manchu Qing Dynasty government in 1976 that lasted for eight years (San José University n.d.; MRG 2001, 11; The Dictionary of Global Culture 1997).
		Although the government successfully extinguished the rebellion, it was unable to extinguish the White Lotus groups (San José University n.d.).
		The Rebellion picked up remnants of the Taiping Rebellion after the Taipings were defeated in 1864, but with the defeat of the Taipings the government could bring the full strength of its army against the Niens.
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/41501bf615.html (732 words)

	Section VII
		Rebellions struck the frontiers, local officials lost control to banditry and corruption, the treasury went into deficit, and ecological crises surfaced.
		Most dangerous was the White Lotus Rebellion, an outbreak by a millenarian Buddhist sect that raged in the hill regions of the central Yangtze from 1796 to1805.
		But the White Lotus movement went further: its adherents worshipped Maitreya, the Buddhist manifestation of the future, who would usher in a radically new era marked by a confrontation of the forces of light with the forces of darkness.
	web.mit.edu /21h.504/www/perdue_21.htm (7186 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Politics :: Rebellion and Revolution :: The Boxer Rebellion
		The Boxer Rebellion was a bloody uprising in northern China in 1900 in which hundreds of Chinese and more than 200 people from other countries were killed.
		The Boxer Rebellion climaxed a movement in the late 1800's against the spread of Western and Japanese influence in China.
		This society was originally connected with the White Lotus sect, which opposed the Manchus, the rulers of China.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/03pol/c03s01.html (285 words)

	HOUSE OF LIU : PROTECT AND DESTROY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The White Lotus Society started one of the most notable uprisings during the Qing Dynasty as a tax protest.
		The White Lotus Society were no strangers to organizing revolts against the foreigner rulers in China.
		A branch of the White Lotus Society called the "Fists of Righteous Harmony" were also behind the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
	www.houseofliu.com /qna.htm (497 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		White Lotus Rebellion: The White Lotus society was a secret society that rose up against the Mongols and let the revolt (in 1796) called the White Lotus Rebellion.
		The cause of the Seapoy rebellion involved a rifle used in 1857 that used cow and pig fat to grease the barrel, this grease violated Hindu and Muslim religion.
		To discourage future rebellions, the British had the leaders of the seapoy executed, and the British parliament dissolved the British east India Company and transferred the rule of India to the British government.
	www.antiskewl.com /other/euro.txt (22456 words)

	Asian History - China, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
		The first rebellion that forced a major compromise in the Manchu government itself was the White Lotus Rebellion in central China (see adjoining map).
		The White Lotus religious sect was based on Buddhism, and had faced previous attempts by the Manchus to suppress it, presumably because the sect was a menace to social order.
		The rebellion was not put down until 1864, and then not by the Manchu army but by an army of Chinese recruits.
	www.generationaldynamics.com /cgi-bin/D.PL?d=ww2010.book.asia (6551 words)

	rebellions etc.
		Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History Frederick Wakeman, Jr.
		I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
		China's impressive record of rebellion and revolution is due not simply to the country's extraordinary size and longevity, but also to the fact that central elements in China's political culture have directly encouraged such protests.
	oook.info /anth230/rebellions.html (3021 words)

	All Empires - The Qin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The next calamitous upheaval to occur in China was the Taiping Rebellion, which lasted over fifteen years and directly or indirectly caused the lives of an estimated 20-odd million Chinese.
		Women were the social and economic equal of men; many administrative posts in the new Kingdom were assigned to women This social and economic reform, combined with its passionate anti-Manchu nationalism, made the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace a magnet for all the Chinese suffering under the dislocations and disasters of the mid-century.
		In 1894 a pro-Japanese Korean reformist was assassinated in Shanghai and a Korean religious sect, the Tonghak, began a rebellion.
	www.allempires.com /empires/qing/qing2.htm (2745 words)

	6. The Qing Empire - All Empires
		The White Lotus was a religious sect, which combined elements of Bhuddism, Taoism, and a few doomsday prophecies.
		Attempting to destroy the White Lotus, the local authorities launched crackdowns on the White Lotus rebels in the border areas.
		At first, the White Lotus's tactics were simple- they would attack valley towns, sack them, murder any Q'ing officials, and disappear to their own well fortified mountain villages.
	www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=The_Qing_Empire (6824 words)

	Powelson Chapter 11 - China: The Puzzles of History
		Where Chinese rebellions did have political aims, they were frequently grandiose, such as the restoration of the Sung dynasty, the intention of some in 1351.
		All these rebellions did not reach down to earthy issues between lords and peasants, such as land tenure and labor terms, which were common to the northwest European and Japanese rebellions.
		Rebellions broke out with greater frequency during the nineteenth century: Taiping (1850-64), which nearly overthrew the dynasty; Nien (1856-68); and several Muslim risings (1855-73).
	tqe.quaker.org /wealth-and-poverty/11china.htm (5948 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for lotus
		Nichiren [Japsun lotus], 1222-82, Japanese Buddhist priest, founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
		Morphological comparison of progeny derived from 4x-2x and 4x-4x hybridizations of Lotus glaber Mill.
		Lotus changes the rules with move onto mainframe.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=lotus (559 words)

	Mountain Tae Kwon Do School - Kung Fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The secret White Lotus Society, can be traced directly back to 12th-century Buddhist sects and indirectly to the 4th century.
		In 1795, members of this sect led the White Lotus Rebellion with the aim of overthrowing the alien Manchu Qing Dynasty.
		And, although the uprising was suppressed, White Lotus ideas were adopted by the boxer rebels of 1899-1901.
	www.mjmk.com /mtkd/kungfu.html (738 words)

	Famous Ancient Chinese People Topic Center - Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		An Lushan Rebellion The Anshi Rebellion (zh-cpc=and#23433;and#21490;and#20043;and#20098;p=an1 shi3 zhi1 luan4) occurred in China, dur...
		Panthay Rebellion The Panthay Rebellion (1856 - 1873) was a rebellion by the Huis, Chinese Muslims, against the Qing Dynasty in Yunnan Provin...
		White Lotus Rebellion cleanup The White Lotus Rebellion (白蓮教起義) (1796-1804) was a Chinese anti-Manchu upr...
	www.famouschinese.com /topic/Famous_Ancient_Chinese_People (2033 words)

	2003 - 2004 Projects
		In an attempt to reenergize the dialogue about how African-Americans and whites are sentenced, this research analyzes data published by the National Institute of Justice to explore the sentencing disparity hypothesis as it relates to the imposition of the death penalty between whites and African-Americans from 1999-2002.
		Brief histories of the White Lotus and Boxer uprisings are followed by a discussion of the nature of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in China.
		This research proposes that Eternal Mother beliefs posed a challenge to Confucian orthodoxy, and examines the evidence of Eternal Mother worship influence in the White Lotus and Boxer uprisings.
	www.csus.edu /mcnair/2003-2004Projects.htm (1745 words)

	History of Vegetarianism - China & Vegetarianism
		In the end era of Song Dynasty, there were many rebellions and foreign invasions (for example: Manchurians in North China 1115-1234).
		Manchurians were invited into China by Ming Dynasty to eliminate a rebellion and then Manchurians stayed and established Ching or Qing (means "clean" or "pure") Dynasty (1644-1911) but Manchurians did not gain control of the whole of China until 1683.
		An increase in the population from 100 million at the end of the17th century to 300 million at the end of the 18th century made a shortage of land, moreover meat diet was more popular than vegetarian diet.
	www.ivu.org /history/east/china.html (2142 words)

	Global Chinese Language And Culture Center Online_Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		The white lotus rebellion of the first nine years of the Jia Qing reign 1796 to 1804 was a large-scale peoples revolt against the Ching dynasty.
		At that time the white lotus sect was very powerful in Hunan and Hu Pai, Shan Xi and Si Chuan Provinces.
		It was only then that the court discovered that the strength of the White lotus sect was greater enough to touch him.
	edu.ocac.gov.tw /culture/chinese/CULTUREENGLISH/Story/Estory0402_22.htm (470 words)

	Modern China: The 1911 Revolution
		As the pace of rebellion picked up throughout the nineteenth century, the imperial gradually grew in power and influence.
		In 1901, the education system was reformed to allow the admission of girls and the curriculum was changed from the study of the Classics and Confucian studies to the study of Western mathematics, science, engineering, and geography.
		First, his response to the Szechwan rebellion was to overplay his hand; the deaths that resulted drove several other revolutionary attempts.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MODCHINA/REV.HTM (1949 words)

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