The Great Encyclopedia of Taoism

Poems on the Golden Fluid Great Elixir

Poems on the Golden Fluid Great Elixir 金液大丹诗

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Poems on the Golden Fluid Great Elixir: 90+ cryptic Tang-Song poems outline a 6-stage inner alchemy path—rooted in Cantong Qi—using dragon-tiger symbolism to achieve immortality in three years.

Poems on the Golden Fluid Great Elixir 金液大丹诗

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Poems on the Golden Fluid Great Elixir: 90+ cryptic Tang-Song poems outline a 6-stage inner alchemy path—rooted in Cantong Qi—using dragon-tiger symbolism to achieve immortality in three years.

Glossary of Inner Alchemy

Glossary of Inner Alchemy 内丹还元诀

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Glossary of Inner Alchemy: An early Daoist manual mapping body parts to alchemical terms—saliva as “golden liquid,” spleen as “yellow sprout,” and organs to trigrams—turning physiology into spiritual symbolism.

Glossary of Inner Alchemy 内丹还元诀

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Glossary of Inner Alchemy: An early Daoist manual mapping body parts to alchemical terms—saliva as “golden liquid,” spleen as “yellow sprout,” and organs to trigrams—turning physiology into spiritual symbolism.

Heart-Mirror of the Great Elixir

Heart-Mirror of the Great Elixir 大还心鉴

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Heart-Mirror of the Great Elixir: Attributed to Hanshan, this Daoist alchemy text teaches that true elixir arises from symbolic lead (water’s metal) and mercury (wood’s fire), unified in the heart-mind—“all...

Heart-Mirror of the Great Elixir 大还心鉴

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Heart-Mirror of the Great Elixir: Attributed to Hanshan, this Daoist alchemy text teaches that true elixir arises from symbolic lead (water’s metal) and mercury (wood’s fire), unified in the heart-mind—“all...

Mirror of Alchemical Insight

Mirror of Alchemical Insight 丹论诀旨心鉴

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Mirror of Alchemical Insight: 10th-century Daoist text by Zhang Yuande rejects toxic minerals, teaches true elixir arises from primordial Qi via lead-mercury symbolism, and stresses that “the mind makes the...

Mirror of Alchemical Insight 丹论诀旨心鉴

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Mirror of Alchemical Insight: 10th-century Daoist text by Zhang Yuande rejects toxic minerals, teaches true elixir arises from primordial Qi via lead-mercury symbolism, and stresses that “the mind makes the...

Nine-Cycle Method of Inner Cultivation

Nine-Cycle Method of Inner Cultivation 陈先生内丹诀

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Nine-Cycle Method of Inner Cultivation: Song-era Daoist Chen Pu’s unique system—9 stages of poetic alchemy, transforming body and spirit; 3 cycles yield earthly immortality, 9 achieve celestial ascension.

Nine-Cycle Method of Inner Cultivation 陈先生内丹诀

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Nine-Cycle Method of Inner Cultivation: Song-era Daoist Chen Pu’s unique system—9 stages of poetic alchemy, transforming body and spirit; 3 cycles yield earthly immortality, 9 achieve celestial ascension.

Daoist Alchemical Discernment

Daoist Alchemical Discernment 学仙辨疑诀

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Daoist Alchemical Discernment: Attributed to Zhang Wu Meng, this Song-era text decodes symbolic alchemical terms like lead and mercury, teaching that true elixir lies in unifying spirit and nature to...

Daoist Alchemical Discernment 学仙辨疑诀

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Daoist Alchemical Discernment: Attributed to Zhang Wu Meng, this Song-era text decodes symbolic alchemical terms like lead and mercury, teaching that true elixir lies in unifying spirit and nature to...