Anonymous
Posted August 23, 2008
And is resolute enough to see past the superficial.. this book is very well done. It brought context to hexagrams I had been encountering and was unable to fully digest the underlying dynamics of, until reading the stories behind them and the hexagram origins. All that is required is going beyond one's day to day banalities/mundane realities into the deeper meaning behind what one is being taught and where one is being led. A must read for anyone that interested in going beyond using the iching as mere 'fortune telling', and has an actual interest in it's *study* and lifetime application for actual spiritual development.
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Posted November 22, 2000
While a definitive edition, this interpretation of the I Ching has very little to offer in terms of wisdom to those who cast the hexagrams. I found it to be nebulous and almost completely unintelligable in its definitions of each hexagram.
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Kidder Smith
This, I would suggest, is the single best introduction to theYijing currently available.London Review of Books
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.Library Journal
The I Ching or Book of Changes is a Chinese manual for divination (also called a book of wisdom), compiled in the ninth century B.C.E. A person consulting the I Ching is said to be able to see into the true nature of the universe, and, by acting according to its dictates, avoid personal failures and disasters. Most available editions of the I Ching are based on the James Legge translation, a work produced over 140 years ago and characterized by romanticized and idiomatic Victorian English. Although not more accurate or revealing than the Legge, this new translation is welcome because of its crisp usage of modern-day English. Lynn supplies a chart of trigrams and hexagrams, a glossary, and a list of proper names. Of special interest to students of classical Chinese text is a commentary by Wang Bi, a third-century A.D. Chinese scholar. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.-Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., HonoluluTimes Literary Supplement (London)
This is the best I Ching that has so far appeared.
London Review of Books
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.
Shambala Sun
[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.
Religion
Lynn has... produce[d] a translation of whose accuracy one can be optimally confident... [T]his is a solidly and attractively produced volume.
Time Magazines Literary Supplement (London)
This is the best I Ching that has so far appeared.Product Details
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Richard John Lynn has a Ph.D. in Chinese from Stanford University. Acclaimed as one of the outstanding translators of our time, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Auckland University; and the University of British Columbia. He is currently professor of Chinese thought and literature at the University of Toronto. Lynn has also served as a Humanities Administrator in the Division of Research at the NEH, in charge of the Translators Grants Program.
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