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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
A brief note on Chinese romanisation
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
A brief account of historical trends of Daoist alchemical writings
The Daoist Canon
Chinese pharmacopoeia
Identification of minerals and plants
Technical terms in Chinese alchemy
2 On the dating of Daoist alchemical texts
Methodology
Dating the Cantongqi wuxianglei miyao (Figure 2.1)
Dating the Chunyang Lü Zhenren yaoshizhi (The Immortal Lü Dongbin’s Book on Preparation of Drugs and Minerals) (Figure 2.2)
Dating the Xuanyuan Huangdi shuijing yaofa (Medicinal Methods from the Aqueous Manual of Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor)
3 Danfang jianyuan (Mirror of Alchemical Processes—a Source Book) and Danfang jingyuan (Mirror of the Alchemical Laboratory)
Collation and translation of Dugu Tao’s Danfang jianyuan (Mirror of Alchemical Processes—a Source Book)
Danfang jianyuan (in english translation) with collations
Danfang jianyuan: juan 1
Danfang jianyuan: juan 2
Danfang jianyuan: juan 3
Partial restoration, translation and collation of Danfang jingyuan (Mirror of the Alchemical Laboratory) (Figure 3.5)
4 Partial restoration, collation and translation of lost alchemical texts
The last curtain on Chinese alchemy: Gengxin yuce (Precious Secrets of the Realm of Geng and Xie, i.e. metals and minerals)
Translation of restored fragmentary text of the Gengxin yuce
Dijingtu (Earth Mirror Charts), a lost manual on mining and geobotanical prospecting
Zaohua zhinan (Guide to the Creation of Things)
Waidan bencao (Pharmacopoeia of Operative Alchemy)
Three versions of Baozanglun (Discourse on the Precious Treasury of the Earth)
Qingxiazi’s Dantailu (Discourse on the Alchemical Laboratory)
5 General discussions
‘Sympathy’ and ‘like-attracts-like’ in magic
Natural transmutation and transfiguration
Fictitious plants and animals
Metal indicators and geobotanical prospecting
Classifications of alchemical and medicinal substances
Development of Chinese alchemy
Intercultural contact
Appendix I Beyond the Daoist Canon: proto-chemistry in the pharmacopoeia
Group I
Group II
Group IV
Group V
Group VI
Group VII
Conclusions
Appendix II Extracts from al-Bīrūnī’s pharmacopoeia with added commentaries
Table I A glossary of common Chinese alchemical terms
Table II Plant names and properties in Chunyang Lü Zhenren yaoshizhi and Xuanyuan Huangdi shuijing yaofa
Table III Chinese dynasties
Notes
Foreword, by T.H.Barrett
Preface
1 Introduction
2 On the dating of Daoist alchemical texts
3 Danfang jianyuan (Mirror of Alchemical Processes—a Source Book) and Danfang jingyuan (Mirror of the Alchemical Laboratory)
4 Partial restoration, collation and translation of lost alchemical texts
5 General discussions
Appendix I: beyond the Daoist Canon: proto-chemistry in the pharmacopoeia
Appendix II: extracts from al-Bīrūnī’s pharmacopoeia with added commentaries
Table II: plant names and properties in Chunyang Lü Zhenren yaoshizhi and Xuanyuan Huangdi shuijing yaofa
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
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