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The Original Meaning of the Yijing - Commentary on the Scripture of Change (Hardcover)
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The Original Meaning of the Yijing - Commentary on the Scripture of Change (Hardcover)
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
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The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally
considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics.
Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by
the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written
explanations and a series of appendices attributed to Confucius,
which transformed it into a work of wisdom literature as well as
divination. Over the centuries, hundreds of commentaries were
written on it, but for the past thousand years, one of the most
influential has been that of Zhu Xi (1130-1200), who synthesized
the major interpretive approaches to the text and integrated it
into his system of moral self-cultivation. Joseph A. Adler's
translation of the Yijing includes for the first time in any
Western language Zhu Xi's commentary in full. Adler explores Zhu
Xi's interpretation of the text and situates it in the context of
his overall theoretical system. Zhu Xi held that the Yijing was
originally composed for the purpose of divination by the mythic
sage Fuxi, who intended to create a system to aid decision making.
The text's meaning, therefore, could not be captured by a single
commentator; it would emerge for each person through the process of
divination. This translation makes available to the
English-language audience a crucial text in the history of Chinese
religion and philosophy, with an introduction and translator's
notes that explain its intellectual and historical context.
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