Wang Liping王力平（附）

Style & Daoist names

Daoist name Yongsheng

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1949 — ?

School

Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen

Role

Transmitter of Internal Alchemy

Birthplace

Fushun (present-day Fushun, Liaoning)

Life

Wang Liping, a native of Fushun, Liaoning, claims to be the eighteenth-generation transmitter of the Longmen lineage of Quanzhen. According to a biography written by his disciples, The Great Way in Practice (Da Dao Xing, 1991, by Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao), he was secretly taught internal alchemy methods as a child by three elderly Longmen Daoists. Since the 1980s he has taught internal alchemy methods such as the "Lingbao Tongzhineng" (Wondrous Treasure Comprehensive-Intelligence) internal skill both in China and abroad, and his English-language biography, Opening the Dragon Gate, has circulated widely among Western practitioners of internal alchemy. The scholarly world remains reserved about his lineage and about the experiences recounted in The Great Way in Practice; this entry is included as an appendix, recording only information from public publications, without judging the authenticity of his claimed transmission.

Contributions & Influence

• Taught internal alchemy methods in China and abroad, expanding the overseas influence of Longmen alchemical practice
• His biography Opening the Dragon Gate has circulated widely in the West
• A case study in the overseas transmission of contemporary mainland internal alchemy methods

Works

• Da Dao Xing (Journey of the Great Way), a biography by Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao
• Opening the Dragon Gate (English translation)

Legends

The accounts of his being secretly taught by three elderly Daoists as a child appear in the biography written by his disciples and are biographical narrative.