Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard - Hardcover

Chen, Kaiguo; Shunchao, Zheng; Kaiguo, Chen; Zheng, Shunchao; Cleary, Thomas F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804830983 ISBN 13: 9780804830980

Publisher: Tuttle Pub, 1996

Synopsis

Opening the Dragon Gate is the authorized biography of Wang Liping (1949- ), a modern Taoist wizard. It is the true story of how a young boy becomes heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. As told to his students Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, the story tells of Liping's arduous fifteen-year apprenticeship with the masters, during which time he enters an ancient realm and learns the true source of health, healing, and long life.
A compelling story of the making of a modern wizard, this book reveals never-before-available information about Taoist principles and procedures, people and places. Wang Liping imparts his knowledge on esoteric exercises, alchemical elixirs, mysteries of Man and Nature, and the secrets of inner transformation, making this a mystical and extraordinary book.

About this title

About the Author

Cheng Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao are students of the modern Taoist master Wang Liping and live in Beijing. Translator Thomas Cleary is considered the foremost translator of Chinese Taoist and Buddhist texts.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804830983
• ISBN 13: 9780804830980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282