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Taoism and Self Knowledge

The Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection (Xiuzhen tu)

by Catherine Despeux · Jonathan Pettit (trans.)

A study of the Xiuzhen tu, a Daoist chart that maps the body's palaces, deities and stages of internal alchemy. Despeux traces the chart's versions and sources and explains how it was used to teach inner cultivation.

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