White Cloud is a group of Abbot Zhao Yuanfu’s trusted representatives in Europe.

Zhao Yuanfu is Abbot at the famous White Cloud Temple in Beijing and is the 19th Inheritor of the Quanzhen Longmen or Complete Reality Dragon Gate School of Daoism.

The Complete Reality school of Daoism originated in Northern China. It was founded by the Daoist master Wang Chongyang in the 12th century.

Dragon Gate Daoism is a branch of the Complete Reality School of Daoism. It was founded by Wang Chongyang’s disciple Qiu Chuji.

It was Qiu Chuji who founded the White Cloud Temple in Beijing in the 13th Century.

Desmond Murray is President of the International Daoist Society and Overseas President of the Weihai Wushu Association, and is recognised as a Daoist Wushu master at the highest levels in China. 

The International Daoist Society was built on the foundations that were originally laid down by Professor Chan Kam Lee who started the first Daoist Arts School in London in the 1930’s. The Presidency was continued by Grand Master Chee Soo from 1954. Chee Soo passed the Presidency to Mr Murray before his death in 1994.