A companion to Yi Jing numerology and cosmology : Chinese studies of images and number from Han (202 BCE-220 CE) to Song (960-1279 CE) / / Bent Nielsen

• Autore: Nielsen Bent
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Disciplina: 133.3/35/0951
• Soggetto topico: Numerology - China; Cosmology, Chinese
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; Common Abbreviations; Conventions; Introduction; A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology; Selected Bibliography; Index of Common English Translations of the Hexagram names; Index of Chinese Works
• Sommario/riassunto: Translations of the Yi jing into western languages have been biased towards the yili ('meaning and pattern') tradition, whereas studies of the xiangshu ('image and number') tradition - which takes as its point of departure the imagery and numerology associated with divination and its hexagrams, trigrams, lines, and related charts and diagrams - has remained relatively unexplored. This major new reference work is organised as a Chinese-English encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically according to the pinyin romanisation, with Chinese characters appended. A chara
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Yi Jing numerology and cosmology
• ISBN: 1-136-60268-2; 0-203-35792-2; 1-299-47780-1; 1-136-60269-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779679303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II