Articles, sources and criticism
Explore historical sources, translations, research articles and critical discussions of the Yijing.
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3 December 2018
Archive notice: This workshop has finished. Registration is closed. The famous doctor Sun Yikui (ca. 1522-1699) is credited with the words “If you don’t know Yijing, you are inadequate to be…
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3 December 2018
Archive notice: This workshop has finished. Registration is closed. If you study the Yijing (I Ching), the Chinese Book of Changes and one or more of the following statements applies to…
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11 April 2018
“The task of translating and explaining the works of Pagan Philosophers is by no means easy of accomplishment.” This is how Thomas mcClatchie (1814-1885) starts the Preface to his Yijing translation, A…
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19 March 2018
有孚攣如。富以其鄰。 有孚攣如: this sentence also occurs at H61.5. You fu 有孚: see here. Luan 攣: to join, to connect. There are a few dictionaries (like 《新甲骨文編》) who link this character to an oracle…
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14 March 2018
有孚血去. 惕出. 无咎. It has been more than a year since I wrote my last Translation Note. This has mainly to do with one word: punctuation. The original Chinese text does…
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2 March 2018
Archive notice: This workshop has finished. Registration is closed. If you study the Yijing (I Ching), the Chinese Book of Changes and one or more of the following statements applies…
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5 September 2017
I recently quit Facebook but to stay in contact with my fans I set up my own FB-like environment. If you are a fan of me and my work I invite…
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26 April 2017
EXTRA WORKSHOP! FOUNDATION CHINESE YANG SHENG AND TCM & YJCN are proud to organize a WORKSHOP PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE YIJING OR BOOK OF CHANGES AS A TOOL FOR DIAGNOSIS IN…
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11 February 2017
輿說輻. 夫妻反目. Yu 輿: a chariot, but also the box of the chariot: Shuo 說: loan for tuo 脫, ‘fall off’ or ‘remove’. It also is a loan for shui 税,…
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