Title: Awakening to Reality
Subtitle: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen pian,  a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy
Description: 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.
Subjects: Taoism, Daoism, Alchemy, Early works to 1800, Doctrines
People: Zhang Boduan