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          Editor, The Encyclopedia of Taoism..

          Fabrizio Pregadio

          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).

          Fabrizio Pregadio has taught at different universities in Italy, Germany, the United States, and Canada.

        1. The three parts were appended to Mao Ying's revealed biography from earlier sources (Robinet , 2: ), then separated from it to form the present text.
        2. Editor, The Encyclopedia of Taoism.
        3. Fabrizio Pregadio intends with this survey to illustrate the foundations of the Daoist Great Clarity (Taiqing 太清) tradition, "the earliest.
        4. This anthology presents complete or partial translations of sixteen major works belonging to the Taoist tradition of Neidan, or Internal Alchemy.

          5. 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