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050 00 $aBL1940.W36$bC44 1996
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100 1 $aChen, Kaiguo.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020040191
245 10 $aOpening the Dragon Gate :$bthe making of a Taoist wizard /$cChen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao ; translated from the original Chinese by Thomas Cleary.
260 $aBoston :$bCharles E. Tuttle,$c1996.
300 $a282 pages ;$c23 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aOpening 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.
520 8 $aA 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.
600 10 $aWang, Liping.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92042337
650 0 $aTaoists$zChina$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010115428
650 0 $aTaoism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132392
700 1 $aZheng, Shunchao,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96030388
700 1 $aCleary, Thomas F.,$d1949-2021.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78082256
852 00 $beal$hBL1940.W36$iC44 1996