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" Opening the dragon gate : "
Kaiguo Chen and Shunchao Zheng.
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BL
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848960
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Chen, Kaiguo.
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Opening the dragon gate : : the making of a modern taoist wizard /\ Kaiguo Chen and Shunchao Zheng.
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New York :: Tuttle Publishing,, 2011.
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1 online resource
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146290288X
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: 9781462902880
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0804830983
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0804831858
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Translators's Introduction; Part I: Entering the Way; Chapter 1: The Teachers' Search; Chapter 2: Refining the Mind; Chapter 3: Concentrating the Vital Spirit; Chapter 4: Intensive Cultivation of the Triple World; Chapter 5: Taking Alchemical Elixir and Fasting; Part II: Rebirth and Refinement; Chapter 6: Returning to Life After Death; CDhapter 7: Practicing the Way; Chapter 8: Roaming; Chapter 9: The Five Arts; Chapter 10: Transcending Time and Space.; Chapter 11: Deliberate Dreaming and Refinement of Spirit; Chapter 12: Treasure Hunting the Mountains.
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Chapter 13: Skies Beyond the SkyChapter 14: The Dream; Chapter 15: The Way Follows Nature; Chapter 16: Ascent; Part III: Participating in Evolution; Chapter 17: Teachers and Disciple part; Chapter 18: Transcending Sagehood to the Ordinary; Chapter 19: Emerging on a Amission; Chapter 20: Shouldering a Heavy Responsibility; Chapter 21: Reluring to the Source; Back Cover.
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This authorized biography of the contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949 - ) tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as Taoist principles and secrets of inner transformation. The 18th-generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, Wang Liping is heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. This is the first English translation by noted writer Thomas Cleary of the authorized biography by two longtime disciples of this living master of the Dragon Gate branch of the Complete Reality school of Taoism, which.
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Wang, Liping.
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Taoism.
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Taoists-- China, Biography.
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Taoism.
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Taoists.
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China.
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299.5/14092
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BL1940.W36
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Cleary, Thomas F.,1949-
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Zheng, Shunchao,1966-
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