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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nielsen, Bent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Richmond : Curzon, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 391 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136602696
1136602690