The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Hsiung: A Translation with Commentary of the T'ai hsüan ching by Michael NylanState University of New York Press, 1 בפבר׳ 2014 - 680 עמודים This is a translation, with a commentary and a long contextualizing introduction, of the only major work of Han (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.) philosophy that is still available in complete form. It is the first translation of the work into a European language and provides unique access to this formative period in Chinese history. Because Yang Hsiung's interpretations drew upon a variety of pre-Han sources and then dominated Confucian learning until the twelfth century, this text is also a valuable resource on early Chinese history, philosophy, and culture beyond the Han period. The T'ai hsüan is also one of the world's great philosophic poems comparable in scale and grandeur to Lucretius' De rerum naturum. Nathan Sivin has written that this is one of the titles on the short list of Chinese books every cultivated person should read. Han thinkers saw in this text a compelling restatement of Confucian doctrine that addressed the major objections posed by rival schools including Mohism, Taoism, Legalism and Yin-Yang Five Phase Theory. Since this Han amalgam formed the basis for the state ideology of China from 134 B.C. to 1911, an ideology that in turn provided the intellectual foundations for the Japanese and Korean states, the importance of this book can hardly be overestimated. |
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עמוד 10
... final divi- sion into eighty - one families symbolizes the numerous local units which organize the myriad individual phenomena ( in Chinese terms , " the myriad things " [ wan wu ] ) of society and nature . Each graphic symbol is ...
... final divi- sion into eighty - one families symbolizes the numerous local units which organize the myriad individual phenomena ( in Chinese terms , " the myriad things " [ wan wu ] ) of society and nature . Each graphic symbol is ...
עמוד 13
... final de- cline are inauspicious . Good and bad tidings , like yin / yang orientations in general , are never absolute , but relational . In the value system of the Mystery , a yang affilia- tion by itself is auspicious , but in ...
... final de- cline are inauspicious . Good and bad tidings , like yin / yang orientations in general , are never absolute , but relational . In the value system of the Mystery , a yang affilia- tion by itself is auspicious , but in ...
עמוד 25
... final Head , Fostering , can be read as continuous with that of Center , the first tetragram , closing the gap between the winter solstice and the new annual cycle . Despite yin's undisputed predominance , the germinating action of yang ...
... final Head , Fostering , can be read as continuous with that of Center , the first tetragram , closing the gap between the winter solstice and the new annual cycle . Despite yin's undisputed predominance , the germinating action of yang ...
עמוד 26
... final Head ( no . 81 ) . At the solstices , the greatest preponderance of yin or yang vitality is countered by the germinating power of its opposite , weak but relentless . At the equinoxes , yin and yang are momentarily balanced . At ...
... final Head ( no . 81 ) . At the solstices , the greatest preponderance of yin or yang vitality is countered by the germinating power of its opposite , weak but relentless . At the equinoxes , yin and yang are momentarily balanced . At ...
עמוד 46
... final stage of the human situation or lifespan when Time's limitations become most obvious ) , 188 the only possible conclusion to be drawn is that the inauspi- cious character of “ human endings " in some few cases can override ( or at ...
... final stage of the human situation or lifespan when Time's limitations become most obvious ) , 188 the only possible conclusion to be drawn is that the inauspi- cious character of “ human endings " in some few cases can override ( or at ...
תוכן
4 | |
29 | |
35 | |
47 | |
55 | |
Conclusion | 61 |
The Meaning of Chen | 71 |
On the Style of the Book | 73 |
Fullness | 254 |
Residence | 258 |
LawModel | 262 |
Response | 266 |
Going To Meet | 272 |
Encounters | 276 |
Stove | 280 |
Greatness | 286 |
Glossary for the Introductory Sections Names of People Concepts and Terms 70 71 73 75 | 75 |
Gathering 243 | 80 |
Center | 84 |
Full Circle | 95 |
Mired | 102 |
Barrier | 107 |
Keeping Small | 113 |
Contrariety | 118 |
Ascent | 125 |
Opposition | 130 |
Branching Out | 135 |
Defectiveness Distortion | 140 |
Divergence | 144 |
Youthfulness | 148 |
Increase | 152 |
Penetration | 156 |
Reach | 161 |
Contact | 165 |
Holding Back | 170 |
Waiting | 174 |
Following | 178 |
Advance | 182 |
Release | 186 |
Resistance | 189 |
Ease | 193 |
Joy | 197 |
Contention | 201 |
Endeavor 182 | 206 |
Duties | 210 |
Decisiveness | 218 |
Bold Resolution | 222 |
Packing | 226 |
Legion | 230 |
Closeness | 234 |
Kinship | 239 |
Purity | 251 |
Enlargement | 290 |
Pattern | 294 |
Ritual | 300 |
Flight | 306 |
VastnessWasting | 310 |
Constancy | 314 |
Measure | 318 |
Eternity | 323 |
Unity | 327 |
Diminishment | 331 |
Closed Mouth | 335 |
Guardedness | 339 |
Closing In | 343 |
Massing | 347 |
Accumulation | 351 |
Embellishment | 355 |
Doubt | 359 |
Watch | 362 |
Sinking | 365 |
Inner | 368 |
Departure | 372 |
Darkening | 375 |
Dimming | 379 |
Exhaustion | 381 |
Severance | 385 |
AUTOCOMMENTARIES | 423 |
Hsüan ying | 433 |
Hsüan wen | 448 |
Hsüan tu | 456 |
NOTES | 465 |
351 | 605 |
355 | 623 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 629 |
PARTIAL INDEX OF COMMON IMAGES | 655 |
INDEX | 661 |
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Added by Nylan Alternately Analects Appraisal associated auspicious calamity CCYT Changes character chen cheng chih Ching Fang Chuang tzu Classics commentary commentators Confucian Confucius constellation Correlates corresponds cosmic CTYT cycle CYYT divination Dubs evil example Fath Fathoming Following FW Following SMK Following Wang Following YTC further information glosses Head text Heaven and Earth hsin Hsiung hsü HTYT human Hung fan individual Karlgren Knechtges Knoblock Kunst Lao tzu Legge Literally Means Mencius metaphor ming moral myriad things Mystery noble patterns petty phrase pitchpipes position reduplicative refers ritual ruler sage says Serruys prefers shih Sivin solar period solstice sun enters Sung Chung symbol takes Taoist Tentative translation tetragram THC Hsüan tion virtue Waley Wang Mang Wilhelm winter solstice yang ch'i Yang Hsiung Yang's Yi ching Hexagram yin and yang yin ch'i