Longmen (Dragon Gate)
A living tradition within Quanzhen dao (Complete Perfection). The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Longmen (Dragon Gate) is a living tradition within Quanzhen dao (Complete Perfection). Also written 龍門派, Dragon Gate lineage.
Origin
Founders named in the sources: Wang Changyue (1592–1680), institutional founder, Qiu Chuji (Qiu Changchun), claimed as founding patriarch by the lineage. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. No founding year in my sources. The Stanford Encyclopedia attributes the Longmen lineage to Wang Changyue (1592–1680); Bokenkamp gives Wang Changyue (d. 1680) and locates the branch at Baiyun guan, Beijing. Longmen is today the dominant Quanzhen sub-lineage.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Longmen (Dragon Gate).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-longmen-dragon-gate.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.