02133cam a2200433Ia 4500 ocn775873130 OCoLC 20200709055458.0 m d cr |n| 120209s2012 nju o 000 0 eng d MHW eng MHW EBLCP N$T 9781400841622 (electronic bk.) 1400841623 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)775873130 434572 (N$T) PL2464.Z7 OCC 038000 bisacsh 299.51282 23 N$TA Smith, Richard J. The "I Ching" [electronic resource] : a biography / Richard J. Smith. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (303 p.) Lives of great religious books Description based upon print version of record. The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became on Yi jing. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / I Ching bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: 9780691145099 Lives of great religious books. http://www.msvu.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.msvu.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=860079 Check for Full Text http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=860079 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=434572 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL860079 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50964 50964