Awakening to Reality
Subtitle: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen pian,  a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy
By: Fabrizio Pregadio
Publisher: Golden Elixir Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Mountain View, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780984308217
Subjects: Religion / Taoism; Taoism; Alchemy — China
Description: <I>Awakening to Reality</I> (<I>Wuzhen pian</I>) 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.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
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title: Preface; pagenum: 1
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title: Introduction; pagenum: 21
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title: Translation; pagenum: 75
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title: Selections from Liu Yiming's Commentary; pagenum: 89
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title: Textual Notes; pagenum: 95
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title: Glossary of Chinese Characters; pagenum: 101
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title: Works Quoted