Life
Wang Liping was born in Liaoning in 1949 and, on the account given in Opening the Dragon Gate, was taken in hand as a boy by three elderly Longmen monks and trained through the Cultural Revolution in conditions that make the training itself remarkable. He has taught publicly since the 1980s.
The book is why he appears here. It describes a curriculum — seated work, retreat, staged inner alchemy — with enough specificity that a reader of this archive will recognise the fields, the gates and the three refinements, and it does so under a named lineage with a living teacher who can be found. That combination is exactly what Mo Pai does not offer.
The comparison cuts both ways, and this archive states both. His claims are far more modest than Chang's: no demonstration on film, no measurable charge, nothing that would settle anything. What he has instead is a documented transmission and a public curriculum — and which of those a reader finds more persuasive is the argument the whole subject turns on.
