Name Fabrizio Pregadio | Role Author | |
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Books Great clarity, The Seal of the Unity of the Three, The Seal of the Unity of the Three | ||
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). He is currently Guest Professor of Daoist Anthropology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Research Partner at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Earlier, Pregadio taught at the University of Venice (1996–97), the Technical University of Berlin (1998-2001), Stanford University (2001–08), and McGill University in Montreal (2009–10).
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: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (Stanford University Press, 2006) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Taoism (Routledge, 2008). His translations of Taoist texts include the Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality, 2009), the Cantong qi (The Seal of the Unity of the Three, 2011 and 2012), the Ruyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine, 2013), and a work by the Taoist master Liu Yiming (Cultivating the Tao, 2013), all published by Golden Elixir Press.