The topic of doctoral thesis focused on From Manhood to Becoming a Deity: A Study on Wu Peng's Life and His Practice to Godhood-Promotion in the Ming Dynasty.Through the way of collection, comparison and textual research to find the historical documents such as Chronicles(“Wu taizao gong nianpu” 《吳太宰公年譜》), anthology (“Feihong ting ji” 《飛鴻亭集》) and """"Siku Quanshu""""(《四庫全書》) and local chronicles, supplemented with data from field surveys in the Minzhong area of Fujian, this article studied how Wu Peng, the civil official in the Ming Dynasty, learned from the developed way of manhood to becoming a perfect deity. What the key points of the subjective conditions were his Life story, official career, network of relationships, miraculous experience, and the other of the objective conditions were historical context in the Ming dynasty, social background, and influence of Taoism and Buddhism in Jiangnan area. Therefore the elite community in Jiangnan area and disciples of Tantric yoga agree with Wu Peng’s Taoist practice and contribution that they regarded him as a preach founder in the theogony of Tantric yoga. This doctoral thesis was divided into preface, the other five parts and conclusions. In the chapter two and three, it was focused on Wu Peng’s biography (“Wupeng Liezhuan”〈吳鵬列傳〉) and his family history, youthhood change, and career experience, and then expanded to social relations networks such as kinship, geography, and career. It was solved to the problem that historical materials to Wu Peng had biased evaluation, and the doubt why historical documents did not include """"Wu Peng Biography"""" in the manuscript of Ming history (“Mingshi gao”《明史稿》) . The reason was discovered that the party disputes in the late Ming Dynasty were quite fierce and the problems of the editors in the manuscript of Ming history led to the unfair points of reading the historical documents of the Ming Dynasty. Through a variety of perspectives, the standard for the interpretation of historical documents was constructed in this article, and then it went deep into the other chapters. Chapters four and five focused on one’s status that Wu Peng had from manhood to becoming a deity in some subjective and objective conditions. The first is to relieve hunger, manage rivers, and resist rebellion, which his heroic deeds in accordance with the standards of the """"Book of Rites"""" that protect the people from harm and became an alive deity at the shrine. The second is to have extraordinary background and practice, as well as his enlightenment from many miraculous experiences that made him to reveal practical diligence and unremitting practice. He set up a sacred field Jiqing altar, which he was under the fairy old man’s teachings in Wanlungu (萬崙谷), and his contribution to spread the thought of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism classics. In addition, from the origins of Zen Master Yungu (雲谷禪師), he can be respected as the patriarch of Tantric yoga, Wu Gong Dazai (吳公
