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  • Hardcover: 614 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press (1 Nov 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0231082940
  • ISBN-13: 978-0231082945
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 14.5 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"This is the best I Ching that has so far appeared." -- Times Literary Supplement (London) "This new translation is welcome because of its crisp usage of modern-day English... Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Familiar with current historical and textual research, having no truck with 'ageless wisdoms' and leery of spirituality, Richard Lynn's translation of the I Ching as retranslated, explicated and interpreted by the young scholar Wang Bi and his followers, feels a world apart from that of Wilhelm." -- London Review of Books "[Lynn]'s provided us with the materials from which to reconstruct Wang Bi's vision of the text. The result is clearly written and presented -- the best entry into an I Ching world that we have so far." -- Shambala Sun "Lynn has... produce[d] a translation of whose accuracy one can be optimally confident... [T]his is a solidly and attractively produced volume." -- Religion


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This book presents for the first time in English the fascinating commentary on the I Ching written by Wang Bi (226-249), who was the main interpreter of the work for some seven hundred years. Wang Bi interpreted the I Ching as a book of moral and political wisdom, arguing that the text should not be read literally, but rather as an expression of abstract ideas. Richard Lynn's introduction explains the organization of The Classic of Changes through the history of its various parts, and describes how the text was and still is used as a manual of divination with both the stalk and coin methods. For the fortunetelling novice, he provides a chart of trigrams and hexagrams; an index of terms, names, and concepts; and a glossary and bibliography.
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5.0 out of 5 stars unbiased notes from a variety of sources aid own thought, 19 Jan 2001
This is a poetic and meaningful translation. Lynn gives us not only the orrignal, but also commentries by Wang Bi and extensive notes that help place the piece in context. In these notes he also mentions alternative interpretations, other translations, extra commentries, and a host of other information that may, or may not be in agreement with his own view. As such it is a great aid to forming one's own understanding of the text as the reader is thereby encourages to think for themselves and find which view they agree with. It is not the clearest translation if, by clear, you mean it is obvious what the passage is saying. This is to the good. The work is not designed to be simple and immediately obvious. As it would note itself, such a book could not move beyond the supperficial and consider the truth at a fundemental level. If each passage seems to have multiple meanings, it is because each was meant ot have multiple meanings, both in the orriginal, and in this translation.
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