The West's foremost translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and chance. For him and for his son, Hellmut Wilhelm, the Book of Changes represented not just a mysterious book of oracles or a notable source of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies. In their hands, it emerges, as it did for C. G. Jung, as a vital key to humanity's age-old collective unconscious. Here the observations of the Wilhelms are combined in a volume that will reward specialists and aficionados with its treatment of historical context--and that will serve also as an introduction to the I Ching and the meaning of its famous hexagrams.
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This volume is a fascinating look at the I Ching and the researchers who study it. -- Religious Studies Review
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Original Language: German
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Mainly essays regarding secondary topics about the I Ching,
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I was hoping this book would help teach me how to read the I Ching and how to read the individual lines within each hexagram but was a little disappointed. I admit, this book did help in some regard, but there is nothing that the original Wilhelm/Baynes text has that this book explains any better.
This book basically goes in detail about everything expressed in the original work - detail that doesn't seem to be needed, at least for me. Like it says on the back cover, this book is pretty much essays on the I Ching that help explain its origins, eastern philosophy, and some concepts pertaining to the hexagrams. Instead of buying this book, I recommend just reading the original Wilhelm/Baynes work and soaking up as much information as possible. Furthermore, it would help to get another I Ching just to get another interpretation and hence, another point-of-view. For a guide to which I Ching book you should get, consider these I Ching book reviewers: [...]
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This is a classic, the presentation and edition are careful and well presented. An excelent edition
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Our object is to spend some hours together discussing the Book of Changes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two yielding lines, light trigrams, entire hexagram, nuclear trigrams, individual hexagrams, sublime success, undivided lines, two hexagrams, yarrow stalks, upper trigram, lower trigram, later strata, two trigrams, yin line, holy sages, polar tension, oracle book Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Book of Changes, Keeping Still, Great Treatise, King Wen, Shao Yung, After Completion, Richard Wilhelm, Ten Wings, Discussion of the Trigrams, Great Commentary, Hellmut Wilhelm, Supreme Deity, Preponderance of the Great, Shuo Kua, T'uan Chuan, Yang Hsiung New!
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two yielding lines, light trigrams, entire hexagram, nuclear trigrams, individual hexagrams, sublime success, undivided lines, two hexagrams, yarrow stalks, upper trigram, lower trigram, later strata, two trigrams, yin line, holy sages, polar tension, oracle book Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Book of Changes, Keeping Still, Great Treatise, King Wen, Shao Yung, After Completion, Richard Wilhelm, Ten Wings, Discussion of the Trigrams, Great Commentary, Hellmut Wilhelm, Supreme Deity, Preponderance of the Great, Shuo Kua, T'uan Chuan, Yang Hsiung New!
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- The Doctrine Of The Mean by Confucius on page 139, and Back Matter
- RLE: China: The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought (China: History, Philosophy, Economics) by The Arthur Waley Estate in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Poems Of Goethe by Edgar Alfred Bowring in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore by Géza Róheim in Back Matter
- The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu by Chuang Tzu in Back Matter
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