A companion to Yi jing numerology and cosmology : Chinese studies of images and numbers from Han (202 BCE-220 BCE) to Song (960-1279 CE) /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
Publicado: |
Richmond :
Curzon,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 391 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781136602696 1136602690 |