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Awakening to Reality

The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy

by Fabrizio Pregadio · Fabrizio Pregadio (trans.)

An annotated English translation of the sixteen regulated verses of Zhang Boduan's Wuzhen pian, the founding text of the Southern Lineage of Taoist inner alchemy. Pregadio explains the poems' imagery of lead, mercury and the elixir with reference to the traditional commentaries.

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