A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology

by Bent Nielsen

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700716084
• ISBN13: 9780700716081
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher