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). He is currently affiliated with the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg),[http://www.ikgf.uni-erlangen.de/people/index.shtml/fabrizio-pregadio.shtml Fabrizio Pregadio] (International Consortium for Research in the Humanities).

and is working on a project on the Taoist Master Liu Yiming (1734-1821)

with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).[https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/435229888"Human Nature and Destiny in the Thought of the Daoist Master Liu Yiming (1734-1821)]" (German Research Foundation).

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: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (Stanford University Press, 2006) Pregadio, Fabrizio. [http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=5708 Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China]. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Taoism (Routledge, 2008).Pregadio, Fabrizio, ed. [http://www.goldenelixir.com/publications/eot_sample_entries.html The Encyclopedia of Taoism]. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. His translations of Taoist texts include the Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality, 2009),Pregadio, Fabrizio. [http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/trl_01_wuzhenpian.html Awakening to Reality: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy]. Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2009. the Cantong qi (The Seal of the Unity of the Three, 2011 and 2012),Pregadio, Fabrizio. [http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/trl_02_ctq.html The Seal of the Unity of the Three]. Vol. 1: A Study and Translation of the Cantong qi, the Source of the Taoist Way of the Golden Elixir. Vol. 2: Bibliographic Studies on the Cantong qi: Commentaries, Essays, and Related Works. Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2011, 2012.

the Ruyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine, 2013),Wang Jie (?-1380). [http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/trl_03_ruyao_jing.html Commentary on the Mirror for Compounding the Medicine (Ruyao jing zhujie): A Fourteenth-Century Work on Taoist Internal Alchemy]. Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2013.

a work by the Taoist master Liu Yiming (Cultivating the Tao, 2013),Liu Yiming (1734-1821). [http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/trl_04_liu_yiming.html Cultivating the Tao: Taoism and Internal Alchemy]. Translated by Fabrizio Pregadio. Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2013.

and an anthology of texts on Neidan or Internal Alchemy (2019),Pregadio, Fabrizio. [http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/tao_03_neidan_anthology.html Taoist Internal Alchemy: An Anthology of Neidan Texts]. Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2019.

all published by Golden Elixir Press.