A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology - Softcover

Nielsen, Bent

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9781138862678: A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology
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ISBN 10: 1138862673 ISBN 13: 9781138862678
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

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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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Bent Nielsen is an associate Professor of Chinese Civilization and Culture at Copenhagen University

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138862673
ISBN 13 
9781138862678
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
424
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