| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 391 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; Common Abbreviations; Conventions; Introduction; A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology; Selected Bibliography; Index of Common English Translations of the Hexagram names; Index of Chinese Works |
| Summary |
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 chara |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Numerology -- China
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Cosmology, Chinese.
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Yi jing and science.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Numerology.
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Cosmology, Chinese
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Numerology
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Yi jing and science
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136602696 |
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1136602690 |
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