What is "guiyidao"

Guiyidao (皈依道, "Way of the Return to the One"), best known by its corporate name of Guiyi Daoyuan (皈依道院) or Daoyuan (道院), "School of the Way of the Return to the One" or simply "School of the Way", is a Chinese salvation sect belonging to the Xiantiandao ("Way of Former Heaven") tradition. An older name of the sect is Daodeshe (道德社 "Community of the Way and its Virtue").

Similarly to other Xiantiandao sects, Guiyidao is focused on the worship of the universal God ( Tian), which it defines as the Holiest Venerable Patriarch of the Primordial Heaven (Zhisheng Xiantian Laozu), as the source of salvation.

Guiyidao is related to the Japanese Shinto sect of Omoto (大本 "Great Source") and is a proscribed religion in the People's Republic of China, thereafter being active as an underground church. The charitable branch of Daoyuan is known as the Red Swastika Society (世界红卍字会 Hóngwànzìhuì).