[2] Wudang was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1994.
[3] Inside Hubei Province, looming above the Yellow Dragon River,[4] at an elevation of 1048 meters, sits the Temple of the Five Immortals.
Locals have been honoring this temple for generations as a place of worship and prayer, and many believe the Five Immortals to be their heavenly spiritual protectors.
On special days of celebration, many of them will make pilgrimage trips to the temple to pay homage there or to carry daily necessities to the residing Taoists.
An abbot still remains and continues to impart the knowledge passed on by the Five Immortals to the students that are now arriving from all parts of the globe.
It has been a slow and challenging process due to the state of dilapidation, but improvement and development has been consistent over the last two decades, and the temple is gradually increasing its capacity to host more students.
On special days of celebration, the local people would climb the mountain to offer gratitude and reverence or to haul daily necessities to the residing Taoist monks.
[7] He studied the practices of cultivating Internal alchemy from the grand masters and devoted much of his time to mantras, rituals, talismans, and Taoist Medicine, for which he received transmissions from the elders.
They are considered important source material to promote potential and refinement in the midst of the chaos one must encounter on a spiritual path by the practitioners living in the temple.