Robinet, The World Upside Down: Essays on ... - The Golden Elixir

Glossary of Chinese Characterswei (“to be named”)Weng Baoguang wo (“me”)wu (one of the twelve earthlybranches)wu (“non-being,” “non-existence”)wu (“thing”)Wu Chongxu Wu Wu wuwei (“non-action”)wuxiang (“having no image”)wuxing (five agents)“Wuxing tu” (“Chart of theFive Agents”)Wuzhen pian (Awakening toReality)Xia Zongyu xiang (“image,” “symbol,”“metaphor”)xiangke (“conquest” sequence ofthe five agents)xiangsheng (“generation” sequenceof the five agents)xiangshu (“images andnumbers”)xiangying (“to respond to oneanother”)Xianquan ji (Anthology ofMountain Springs)xiantian (“prior to heaven” or“to the world”)Xiantian xuanmiao yunü taishangshengmu zichuan xiandao (<strong>The</strong>Way of Immortality Transmittedby the Most High Holy Mother,Precelestial Jade Woman of ObscureMystery)Xiao Yanzhi Xici (“Great Appendix” to theBook of Changes)xin (heart, the intuitive spirit)xing (“true nature,” “original nature”)xing (“practice”)xing dao (“implementation ofthe Dao”)Xiudan miaoyong zhili lun (Treatise on the UltimatePrinciples of the Wondrous Operationof the Cultivation of theElixir)xiuding (concentration)Xiuzhen bijue (Secret Instructionson the Cultivation ofReality)xuanji (“hidden spring”)Xuanxue (“school of the Mystery”)Xuanzong zhizhi wanfa tonggui (Reintegrating theTen Thousand Dharmas: AStraightforward Explanation ofthe Taoist Tradition)xubi (“empty similitudes”)Xue Daoguang yangdan (Yang Elixir)yangsheng (“nourishing life”)Yanluo zi ye (grammatical marker of copula)Ye Shibiao Ye Wenshu yi (“creative idea”)yi (“righteousness”)Yijing (Book of Changes)Yimen pomi ge (Yimen’sSong on Overcoming Delusion)Yin Xi yindan (Yin Elixir)ying (“construction”)yinyang wuxing (Yin-Yangand five agents)yishen (“carrying one’s spirit”)yong (“operation,” “implementation,”“functioning”)you (“being,” “existence”)you (one of the twelve earthlybranches)120