Number Names: The Magic Square Divination of Cai Chen 蔡沈 (1167-1230)

ISBN-13: 9781433185991 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 188 str.

Larry Schulz

Opis

This book describes Cai Chen's Master Plan and the Chinese number theory practiced by the "Image and Number" school within Confucian philosophy. Cai created an original divination manual based on the Yijing and keyed it to an intricate series of 81 matrixes with the properties of "magic squares."

Spis treści

List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Numbers - Images - Cai Chen's Songshi Biography - Bibliographic Note - The "Hongfan School" - Hongfan Divination Method - Glossary of Yijing Hexagram and Commentary Names - Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms - Selected Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Larry J. Schulz holds a Ph.D. in Chinese intellectual history from Princeton University. His doctoral dissertation is on the Yijing scholarship of Lai Zhide (16th century); the Journal of Chinese Philosophy published three articles on his discoveries regarding the architecture of the Yijing hexagram sequence (1990 and 2011). He cotranslated The Tower of Myriad Mirrors (2000) and is currently working on (Anthology on the Question of the Order of Hexagrams in the Zhouyi) (forthcoming). Schulz is a retired senior officer from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (serving 1986-2006).