A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780700716081)

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.

Author: Bent Nielsen
ISBN-10: 0700716084
ISBN-13: 9780700716081
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2002
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.68h x 6.20w x 1.10d