27 February 2006
Questioning the question
In every Yi book that teaches you how to consult the oracle you read the same thing: you must ask a question, and the Yi answers that question. It is necessary…
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15 January 2006
A review of Chung Wu’s “The Essentials of the Yi Jing”
…..can be found here at Steve Marshall’s site.
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Don’t forget the Germans
It is a pity that the German literature about ancient China is so much neglected or ignored. There are numerous excellent studies about Chinese literature, history and culture written by German…
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28 September 2005
The ‘sheng’ sacrifice at Qi Shan
(If you see tiny squares where Chinese characters should be you are probably using Internet Explorer. Switch to Firefox, it does a much better job.) Most Yijing translations translate sheng 升,…
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10 August 2005
Symmetry in the houtian bagua
(Click pictures to enlarge) At first glance the houtian bagua 後天八卦trigram circle seems devoid of any symmetry. It seems as if the trigrams follow each other in a random order, and…
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