List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Conventions
Preface
Introduction
Part One: THE HEAVEN OF GREAT CLARITY AND ITS REVELATIONS
1 The Early History of Chinese Alchemy and the Way of the Great Clarity
2 The Heaven of Great Clarity
3 The Great Clarity Corpus
Part Two: THE ELIXIRS OF THE GREAT CLARITY
4 The Crucible and the Elixir
5 The Ritual Sequence
6 The Medicines of Great Clarity
Part Three: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CLARITY
7 Gods, Demons, and Elixirs: Alchemy in Fourth-Century Jiangnan
8 The Way of the Great Clarity and Daoism in the Six Dynasties
Part Four: TEXTS OF THE GREAT CLARITY
9 Scripture of The Nine Elixirs
10 Scripture of the Golden Liquor
11 Scripture of the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles
Part Five: THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT CLARITY
12 The Later History of Chinese Alchemy and the Decline of the Great Clarity
Appendixes
A Dates of Texts in the Waidan Corpus
B Additional Notes on Great Clarity and Related Texts
C Additional Notes on the Commentary to the Scripture of the Nine Elixirs
Notes
Glossary
Works Quoted
Index
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