Description: Original Meaning of the Yijing : Commentary on the Scripture of Change, Paperback by Adler, Joseph (TRN); Zhu, Xi, ISBN 0231216602, ISBN-13 9780231216609, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 English 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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Book Title: Original Meaning of the Yijing : Commentary on the Scripture of C
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Original Meaning of the Yijing : Commentary on the Scripture of Change
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Asian / Chinese, Eastern, Confucianism, Linguistics / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Xi Zhu
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
