The Seventeenth Patriarch LuJing-Gong Patriarch

金公祖師姓路，諱^上中^下一，山東濟寧人，生於清道光廿八年四月廿四日，自號無線痴人。幼喪父母，少年孤苦。光緒年間赴直隸從軍，後蒙仙佛指引訪清虛祖師求道，將多年積蓄紋銀一百兩獻出，就在十六代祖劉祖處修道，每日打柴作飯苦修苦煉功德無量。

劉祖年邁，曾請示上天何人接續道盤，經指示批訓後，祖師於清光緒三十一年三月十五日，奉天命掌白陽天盤，開始於山東濟寧闡揚天道，普渡眾生，辦理末後一著收圓大事。迄民國十四年〈一九二五年〉二月初二日歸天，享年七十有六，鶴髮童顏，隔年三月三日，祖師借山西楊春齡竅，顯化一百天，口吐金公妙典，又說彌勒真經傳世。 

The first patriarch of the White Sun era, Patriarch Lu, first name Zhong-Yi, was born on April 24,1849, in Jining, Shantong Province of China. In his childhood, Patriarch Lu lost his parents and lived in poverty. He joined the army at the age of 22, miraculously inspired by the Buddhas to receive Tao from the sixteenth Patriarch Liu. He donated all his savings sincerely, and followed the sixteenth Patriarch Liu to cultivate the great Tao and experienced hardships and toils with sincerity. In this way, he accumulated infinite merits.

As Patriarch Liu was nearing the end of his mortal life, he begged for instructions from the Almighty God asking who could continue the heritage of Tao. In 1905, Lao Mu (the Almighty) ordained Patriarch Lu as the seventeenth patriarch, or the first patriarch of the White Sun era. With the Heavenly Decree from the Almighty, Patriarch Lu propagated Tao in Jining, Shantong Province of China. This started the Last Salvation Mission.

Patriarch Lu passed away with white hair and a reddish baby-like face at the age of 76 on February 2, 1925. On March 3 of the following year, the Holy Spirit of Patriarch Lu worked a great miracle by borrowing the physical body of a person named Yang Chuen-Ling. This miraculous act lasted for one hundred days, during which he chanted the Jing-Gong Subtle Scripture and the True Sutra of Maitreya Buddha. Both are now widely spread in the world.