Wikipedia's article on the microcosmic orbit, a Taoist inner-alchemical practice, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on the microcosmic orbit, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for You Cheng's 1699 A Compilation for Longevity, the Qing-dynasty text that first used the term in writing, and the 1886 White Cloud Temple stone carving attributed to the Tang-dynasty patriarch Lu Dongbin.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_orbit
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