{"product_id":"i-ching-the-oracle-b-s-9789971966256","title":"I-Ching, the Oracle (B\/S)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Huang K\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Divination - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains a dramatic and revealing translation of this ancient classic into English. The Chinese original is set side-by-side with the translation. Two things set this translation apart from all previous ones. First, archeological findings are used to uncover the meaning of passages obscured for thousands of years. Second, it preserves the flavor of the orignal in a poetic rendition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introductory part of this book provides the historical and philosophical background to the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e. The story is told of the ancient Chinese civilization, pointing out events and figures mentioned in the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e. The undisguised face of the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to the modern reader, who will read it in his or her own individual way, as poetry, as discoverer of self, or as soothsayer. It is in the grand tradition of the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e for different people to see different things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Confucius, who was born in 550 B.C., it was a source of ethics.; To Leibnitz, the eighteenth-century inventor of calculus, it was the essence of binary mathematics.; To Jung Freud's rival in psychology, it was an explorer of the unconscious.; To some Wall Streeters, it predicts the stock market.;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a companion to this book, a computer software, \u003cem\u003eHuang's I Ching\u003c\/em\u003e offers computerized consultations of the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e. In the court of Zhou, they used to do this by counting stalks of the yarrow reed. Results of the court would indicate what passages to read. In later ages, yarrow-counting was replaced by coin-tossing, as a ritual closer to people's lifestyle. And now, the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e is ready for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46894095007895,"sku":"9789971966256","price":3450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789971966256.webp?v=1770321475","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/i-ching-the-oracle-b-s-9789971966256","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}