Wang Yuan-lu was a Taoist priest acting as Abbot of the caves at in Dunhuang. He sold ancient Buddhist scriptures to Paul Pelliot after Sir Aurel Stein's initial visit.

Reference

• Hopkirk, Peter (1980). Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0-87023-435-8.