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Alchemy, Medicine, and Religion in the China of A.D. 320James R. Ware

Taoism and Chinese Religion

Alchemy, Medicine, and Religion in the China of A.D. 320

The Nei P'ien of Ko Hung

by James R. Ware · James R. Ware (trans.)

The only complete English translation of the twenty Inner Chapters of Ge Hong's Baopuzi. Though dated in some interpretations, it gives English readers the full text on immortals, elixirs, talismans and the arts of long life.

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