Book of Changes
Britishnoun
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Yijing, or The Book of Changes, presented a new system of divination later included as a seminal text in the Confucian canon.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
One, the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, would show up as a plot point in “High Castle” and guide its composition.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2010
Carved in every step were the words to a different verse from the Book of Changes.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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So in her swift packing to leave her own world, Mary Malone had taken with her the Book of Changes, as it was called, and the little yarrow stalks with which she read it.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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He is known as a commentator in the Yih-King, "Book of Changes," Page 85 pronounced by Confucius the profoundest of the ancient classics—a book which he never understood.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
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