Awakening to Reality: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen Pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy
by Fabrizio Pregadio
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- ISBN 10
- 0984308210
- ISBN 13
- 9780984308217
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Awakening to Reality ( Wuzhen pian ) is one of the most important and best-known Taoist alchemical texts. Written in the eleventh century, it describes in a poetical form, and in a typically cryptic and allusive language, several facets of Neidan, or internal alchemy. This book presents the first part of the text, consisting of sixteen poems, which contain a concise but comprehensive exposition of Neidan. In addition to notes that intend to clarify the meaning of the more obscure points, the book also contains selections from a commentary dating from the late eighteenth century, which is distinguished by the use of a lucid and plain language.
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- Title
- Awakening to Reality: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen Pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy
- Author
- Fabrizio Pregadio
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0984308210
- ISBN 13
- 9780984308217
- Publisher
- Golden Elixir Press
- Place of Publication
- Mountain View, CA
- This edition first published
- 2009
- LCCN
- 2009912822
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