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Fabrizio Pregadio (born January 14, 1957) is a Sinologist and a translator of Chinese language texts into English related to Taoism and Neidan (Internal Alchemy).

"Awakening to Reality" ("Wuzhen pian") is one of the most important and best-known Taoist alchemical texts.

"Awakening to Reality" ("Wuzhen pian") is one of the most important and best-known Taoist alchemical texts.

Buy a copy of Taoist Internal Alchemy: An Anthology of Neidan Texts book by Fabrizio Pregadio William Martin.

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This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy.

In addition to a complete translation, this book contains a detailed introduction to the history and the teachings of The Seal of the Unity of the Three.

He is currently affiliated with the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg),^[1] and is working on a project on the Taoist Master Liu Yiming (1734-1821) with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).^[2]

Earlier, Pregadio taught at the University of Venice (1996–97), Technische Universität Berlin (1998-2001), Stanford University (2001–08), McGill University in Montreal (2009–10), and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2014-18).

His research interests are the Taoist views of the human being; the self-cultivation traditions of Taoism; their foundations in early Taoist works; and their relation to Chinese traditional sciences, including cosmology, alchemy, and medicine.

Pregadio is the author of Great Clarity: Daois