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The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy

Name: The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy
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ISBN: 9780984308262

Isabelle Robinet, Fabrizio Pregadio

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This book contains four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet, originally published in French and translated here for the first time into English. The essays are concerned with the alchemical principle of "inversion"; the devices used by the alchemists to "give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao"; the symbolic function of numbers in Taoism and in Internal Alchemy; and the original meanings of the terms "External Elixir" (waidan) and "Internal Elixir" (neidan). Isabelle Robinet (1932-2000) was one of the most important Western scholars of Taoism. Her work dealt with several major topics: the Laozi and the Zhuangzi with their commentaries; the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) school of Taoism; Neidan (Internal Alchemy); and Taoist thought and cosmology.

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Golden Elixir Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0984308261

ISBN 13:

9780984308262