Book of Changes
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Carved in every step were the words to a different verse from the Book of Changes.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
The most skilled use the Book of Changes, which was in common use some thirty centuries ago, and by this method see clearly into some scores of years.
From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
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