Fabrizio Pregadio玄英

Style & Daoist names

Fabrizio Pregadio, Xuanying (Chinese name)

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1957 — ?

Role

Daoist ScholarsScholar of alchemical Daoism (dandao)

Birthplace

Italy

Life

Fabrizio Pregadio, an Italian scholar of Daoism, has worked for many years on Chinese alchemy and internal alchemy, and has taught at the University of Venice, Stanford University, and the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany, among other institutions. He edited the two-volume Encyclopedia of Taoism (2008), which contains more than eight hundred entries by international scholars and is the most authoritative English-language reference work on Daoism. His monograph Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (2006) studies the early tradition of external alchemy. He directs Golden Elixir Press and has translated a large body of alchemical scriptures, including an English translation of the Zhouyi cantong qi (The Seal of the Unity of the Three), Liu Yiming's Xiuzhen jiuyao (Nine Essentials for the Cultivation of Perfection), the Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality), and the Four Hundred Words on the Golden Elixir, making him a leading contributor to the translation of internal-alchemy texts in the contemporary West. The above is drawn from publicly available academic information.

Contributions & Influence

• Edited the Encyclopedia of Taoism
• Studied the early tradition of external alchemy in Great Clarity
• Produced systematic English translations of the Zhouyi cantong qi, the Wuzhen pian, and the works of Liu Yiming

Works

• The Encyclopedia of Taoism (editor)
• Great Clarity
• The Seal of the Unity of the Three (English translation of the Cantong qi)
• Cultivating the Tao (English translation of Liu Yiming's Xiuzhen jiuyao)
• Awakening to Reality (English translation of the Wuzhen pian)