Isbn: 9781853270031 - images from the i ching (8 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. The I Ching or Yi Jing (usually translated as Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text and among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000 - 750 BC), over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial period (500 - 200 BC) it was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the Ten Wings. After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought. The I Ching is used in a type of divination called cleromancy, which uses apparently random numbers. Six numbers between 6 and 9 are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the text, in which hexagrams are arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter which has been endlessly discussed and debated over in the centuries following its compilation, and many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision making as informed by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and been paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Condition very good in pictorial soft cover, no DJ, paintings by Ann Williams, Lable from bookstore inside front cover. Little shelf wear no creases to spine. Williams, Ann (ilustrador).

Condición: new.

Paperback. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. This Unique And Beautiful Book Is The First Work On From The First Hexagram The Creative: Heaven Over Heaven To The Last Before Completion: Fire Over Water. Stunning.