Tao Hongjing
456–536
Chinese polymath, writer, alchemist and astronomer, founder of Shangqing Taoism (456–536)
physician · poet · philosopher
Born in Nanjing
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Tao Hongjing:
- Justinian I (482–565)
- Attila (453–500)
- Aryabhata (476–550)
- Benedict of Nursia (480–547)
- Boethius (480–524)
- Clovis I (466–511)
- Leo I (400–461)
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