Tai-shang Tao-chün

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T'ai-shang Tao-chün (Chin., ‘supreme master of the Tao’). One of the highest deities of religious Taoism. He is considered (as is Lao-tzu) an incarnation of the Tao, to make manifest the Tao in heaven, as Lao-tzu was to make it manifest on earth.