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Awakening to Reality: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wezhen Pian Paperback - 2009
by Pregadio, Fabrizio
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- Title Awakening to Reality: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wezhen Pian
- Author Pregadio, Fabrizio
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Golden Elixir Press, Mountai View California
- Date 2009
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 005343
- ISBN 9780984308217 / 0984308210
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.27 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.69 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Taoism
- Library of Congress subjects Taoism - Doctrines, Alchemy - Religious aspects - Taoism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011281214
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Summary
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.