A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology Paperback / softback
by Bent Nielsen
Paperback / softback
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Translations of the Yi jing into western languages have been biased towards the yili ('meaning and pattern') tradition, whereas studies of the xiangshu ('image and number') tradition - which takes as its point of departure the imagery and numerology associated with divination and its hexagrams, trigrams, lines, and related charts and diagrams - has remained relatively unexplored.
This major new reference work is organised as a Chinese-English encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically according to the pinyin romanisation, with Chinese characters appended.
A character index as well as an English index is included.
The entries are of two kinds: technical terms and various other concepts related to the 'image and number' tradition, and bio-bibliographical information on Chinese Yi jing scholars.
Each entry in the former category has a brief explanation that includes references to the origins of the term, cross-references, and a reference to an entry giving a more comprehensive treatment of the subject.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781138862678
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138862678