A Fourth-Century Daoist Family

This volume is the first in a series of full-length English translations from one of the foremost classics in Daoist religious literature, the  Zhen gao  or  Declarations of the Perfected . The  Declarations  is a collection of poems, accounts of the dead, instructions, and meditation methods received by the Daoist Yang Xi (330–ca. 386 BCE) from celestial beings and shared by him with his patrons and students. These fragments of revealed material were collected