Articles, sources and criticism
Explore historical sources, translations, research articles and critical discussions of the Yijing.
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14 September 2015
An interesting, personal and meaningful exploration of the character zai 災 and its variant in the Shanghai Museum Manuscript of the Yijing by my good friend Luis Andrade. http://www.yitoons.com/yiblog/2015/09/13/on-disaster-walking-staffs-and-the-yijing/
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The Yijing / I Ching (易經 / 周易) has been studied over at-least two millennia and remains today a cryptic text of un-certain origins. Despite being an enigmatic text, it has…
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14 March 2015
I originally wrote this paper (in Dutch) for a friend, but I thought I might as well share it with the community. The article discusses the origin of the month hexagrams…
Read article →10 February 2015
吉.原筮.元永貞.無咎.不寧方來.後夫凶. Yuan 原: many old commentaries say that yuan should be read as zai 再, ‘again’. But this meaning of yuan is quite rare. The Shanghai Museum Manuscript has 备 (not to…
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10 February 2015
利永貞. Yong zhen 永貞: long-term (長久) divination: 戊寅卜貞我永. Crack-making on day 15, divines for my long-term prognosis. (Heji 合集 248) Several oracle bone inscriptions end with a character or phrase denoting the…
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