Taoist Classic : The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary : The Taoist I Ching/I Ching Mandalas

Cleary, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1570629080 / ISBN 13: 9781570629082

Published by Shambhala, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taoist Classic : The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary : The Taoist I Ching/I Ching Mandalas
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570629080
• ISBN 13: 9781570629082
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This collection of Taoist texts includes:

- The Taoist I Ching: The classic "Book of Change" illuminated by the commentary of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Taoist adept Liu I-ming. The first part of the book is the text of I Ching proper with Liu's commentary. The second part is Liu's commentary on two additional sections--known as the Overall Image and the Mixed Hexagrams--added to the I Ching by earlier commentators, believed to be members of the original Confucian school. In total, the book illuminates the Taoist inner teachings as practiced in the School of Complete Reality.
- I Ching Mandalas: A traditional program of study that enables students of the I Ching to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning of this great classic. I Ching Mandalas presents diagrams as tools for whole-brain learning that help the student to visualize patterns and interrelationships among the trigrams and hexagrams of the I Ching.

About the Author

Thomas Cleary holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the translator of more than fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.