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COVER ART: “Golden Elixir,” from the Qing dynasty handscroll Jinye huandan yinzheng tu, circa seventeenth or eighteenth century. Used by permission of White Cloud Monastery, Beijing.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Holding yin, embracing yang: three Taoist classics on meditation, breath regulation, sexual yoga, and the circulation of internal energy / Translated with an Introduction by Eva Wong.—1st ed.

p.   cm.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2431-7

ISBN 978-1-59030-263-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Taoism. 2. Hygiene, Taoist. I. Wong, Eva, 1964–

BL1920.H65 2005

299.5’148—dc22

2004024705