The Inner Structure Of - The I Ching : The Book O...

: The book introduces the eight symbols of transformation and aligns the five Chinese elements ( wood, fire, earth, iron, and water ) with the Chinese zodiac.

Lama Anagarika Govinda’s The Inner Structure of the I Ching: The Book of Transformations is a unique structural and philosophical analysis of the ancient Chinese text, shifting the focus from divination to the mathematical and geometric logic of the trigrams and hexagrams. Govinda, a prominent scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, integrates Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist thought to reveal the "inner structure" of the I Ching as a representation of the human mind's relationship with the phenomenal world. The inner structure of the I Ching : the book o...

Govinda departs from traditional Chinese commentaries to explore the intrinsic system of the I Ching. : The book introduces the eight symbols of