The Secret Book on the Inner Elixir as Transmitted by the Immortal Sun Bu’er (Sun Bu’er yuan jun chuan shu dan dao mi shu)
Text: Sun Bu’er
12th-century Chinese Daoist practitioner and teacher; the only woman among the Eight Daoist Immortals
Recorded for Volume 1, Voices of the Pearl
Performed in modern Mandarin
Please find text and translation below.
This, the longest song cycle, is scored for soprano, piano, Ebows and percussion. It sets fourteen poems from The Secret Book on the Inner Elixir as Transmitted by the Immortal Sun Bu’er (Sun Bu’er yuanjun chuanshu dandao mishu), by the twelfth-century female Daoist practitioner Sun Bu’er. Sun Bu’er was the only female member of the ‘Seven Immortals.’ These poems instruct the reader, in metaphorical language, in the practices of ‘nüdan,’ which specifies the method of Daoist inner cultivation especially modified for the female body.
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