Wáng Chóngyáng 王重陽 (1113–1170), original name Wáng Zhōngfú 王中孚 / Wáng Zhé 王嚞, zì Yǔnqīng 允卿, hào Chóngyángzǐ 重陽子 — founder of the Quánzhēn 全真 (Complete Perfection) school, the dominant Daoist order of late-imperial north China. A Jīn-dynasty Shǎnxī native, he abandoned a military-civilian career around 1159 to pursue Daoist cultivation; a famous transformative encounter with two divine masters (“two strangers” — traditionally identified with 呂洞賓 and 鍾離權) at Gānhé Zhèn 甘河鎮 in 1159 launched his career as the founder of Quánzhēn. He gathered around himself the Seven Perfected (七真) — Mǎ Yù 馬鈺, Tán Chùduān 譚處端, Liú Chǔxuán 劉處玄, Qiū Chǔjī 丘處機, Wáng Chǔyī 王處一, Hǎo Dàtōng 郝大通, and Sūn Bùèr 孫不二 (cf. 孫不二) — who carried his teachings forward; from Qiū Chǔjī’s lineage descended the Lóngmén sub-school. His commentary on the Wǔ piān líng wén 五篇靈文 (KR5i0062) is the foundational xìngmìng text of the Quánzhēn school. Standard reference: Eskildsen, The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters (SUNY 2004); Goossaert, “The Invention of an Order: Collective Identity in Thirteenth-century Quanzhen Daoism,” Journal of Chinese Religions 29 (2001).