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Cultivating Perfection

Mysticism and Self-Transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism

By Louis Komjathy

Brill, Leiden, 2007

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A study of the practice and experience of the first generation of Quanzhen Daoists, Wang Chongyang and his disciples, drawn from their poems and writings, with translations, on asceticism, inner alchemy and mystical transformation.

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Louis Komjathy. Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-Transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism. Brill, Leiden, 2007.

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@misc{sources-cultivating-perfection-komjathy,
  title = {{Cultivating Perfection}},
  howpublished = {The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society},
  note = {Source. Last modified November 7, 2026},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/cultivating-perfection-komjathy}
}