The original I Ching oracle: The pure and complete texts with concordance

872 Pages·2005·18.337 MB·English

by  Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, Rudolf Ritsema

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SHANTENA AUGUSTO SABBADINI
The Original | Ching Oracle represents the most substantial
advance in / Ching scholarship since Richard Wilhelm
introduced the oracle to the West in the 1920s.
The tradition concerning the birth of the / Ching is
intertwined with myths about the origin of Chinese
civilization. According to the traditional narrative, the book
came into being through the insights of three legendary
sages. The first sage is a fully mythical being, Fu Xi, the first
emperor, sometimes represented with a serpent body and
a human head. The third sage, who is supposed to have
carried the work to completion, is a fully historical person,
although surrounded by a legendary aura: Confucius, the
“master of ten thousand generations.” Between the two
Stands the man who is considered the principal author of
the book, a figure straddling history and legend: King Wen,
the founder of the Zhou dynasty, which ruled China during
most of the first millennium Bc, the time when the / Ching
actually came into use.
And now Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Sabbadini have
produced the only translation from the original Chinese that
offers the / Ching in its original purity, freeing it from any
specific interpretation. The innovative translation method
used by the authors consistently renders each Chinese
-ideogram by a “core-word” and amplifies this by an
associated “field of meaning,” thus creating —for the first
time in a Western languag—ea concordance to the oracular
texts. Furthermore, the “fields of meaning” allow the Western
reader to access the full wealth and subtlety of imagination
held within these texts, just as a Chinese reader would,
without being confined by the specific interpretation
chosen by a translator. |
The Original | Ching Oracle is a book of divination and a
psychological tool, the like of which has not been seen before
in the Western world. In it the divinatory texts do not have a
fixed meaning, but resonate, once the user has selected an
appropriate image within the “field of meaning,” with the
Specific question and situation submitted to the oracle. By
recovering the original shamanic images, often veiled by
years of later philosophical interpretation, The Original |
| Ching Oracle puts the reader in contact with a deep universal
dimension of the psyche, as present for us today as it was in
China more than 3,000 years ago.
$35.00

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THE ORIGINAL
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ORACLE
THE PURE AND COMPLETE TEXTS
WITH CONCORDANCE
TRANSLATED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE ERANOS FOUNDATION
BY
RUDOLF RITSEMA anpb
SHANTENA AUGUSTO SABBADINI

WATKINS
This edition published in the UK in 2005 by
Watkins Publishing, Sixth Floor, Castle
House, 75-76 Wells Street; London W1T 3QH
© Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Augusto
Sabbadini 2005
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or
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Printed by Imago in China
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