Golden Elixir Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new occasional paper:
The Longmen Lineage: Historical Notes
(PDF, 25 pp., free download)
This essay contains a short history of the Longmen (Dragon Gate) lineage, to which many masters of Neidan (Taoist Internal Alchemy) claim affiliation. It presents the main stages of development of Longmen, and briefly describes its main branches and its main masters.
The essay is translated from the chapter "Longmen pai" (The Longmen Lineage) in
Zhongguo daojiao (Chinese Taoism), ed. by Qing Xitai (4 vols; Chengdu: Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 1994), vol. 1.
