Overview
Yizong was a ruler.
Life and dates
Death
- AD 873 懿不三月而徂Died within three monthsDated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 241
Attested activity
- AD 873 懿不三月而徂Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passages 237-239, 241
Career and standing
- emperor 帝Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 237
Places and affiliations
- Polity Tang 唐 · Relation RuledDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 237, 241
Learning and skills
- Belief Buddhism 佛法 · Relation Adherent ofDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 237-238
Events and relationships
- Humbled imperial dignity equating self with ancient barbarians and offering body as sacrificeReligious · DevoteeDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 239
- Mourned and begged protection from Buddha relicAD 873 懿宗 · Religious · DevoteeDated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 238
- Wept prostrated and pledged life to relicReligious · DevoteeDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 238
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment dynasty fortune spent; Heaven had declared it · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 240
- Assessment repeated predecessors ruin by again embracing Buddhist relic cult · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 237
- Assessment Tang virtue had long been failing · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 241
- Assessment was no true ruler; mind lost to delusion · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 237
References in the histories
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