The Inner Structure of the I Ching 1981 Lama Anagarika Govinda

Description: Description Title: The Inner Structure of the I Ching: The Book of Transformations Author: Lama Anagarika Govinda / Preface by Zentatsu Baker-roshi / Introduction by John Blofeld / Calligraphy: Al Chung-Liang Huang Description: Hardcover in blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and diagram on the front cover. Top edge of textblock shows dust soiling with drip spots, not affecting any pages. Endpapers show very faint dampstains along bottom edge, no interior pages are impacted. Book is unmarked; clean, aside from a couple small spots of soiling in the upper margin of a couple pages. Extensively illustrated. Dust jacket shows light wear at head of spine; rubbed along edges; in an archival mylar sleeve. xviii + 202 page. A nice copy with some minor cosmetic flaws. While traveling in Tibet, Lama Govinda began personal notebooks on the I Ching, as he found it in the Tibetan tradition. His interest in the I Ching continued, and he brought to this first-hand study of the Oriental systems, his own heritage of Western scholarship. But above all, he sought to understand the trigrams and hexagrams directly, that is, without depending on the voluminous commentaries. The core of this book is the diagrams. In them, Lama Govinda combines intuition and art with his highly analytical and mathematical approach to the signs. It was through these clear visual representations of the Houses that he came upon the evidence for correcting the order of the historiacally misplaced hexagrams. These same diagrams also point to a resolution of the problems between the King Wen and Fu Hi versions of the I Ching. Some of the visual work preserves Lama's old, delicate, original drawings. In an afterword, he shows the relationship of the I Ching to Buddhism. Binding: Hardcover Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good+ Publisher: A Wheelwright Press Book | Weatherhill Place: Tokyo - New York Year: 1981 ISBN: 0935706003

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