As indicated in my “Preliminary Remarks,” I have provided transliterations for certain non-standardized Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tibetan terms and titles in parentheses following their English translations in order to facilitate further investigations and comparisons. This approach is necessary for two reasons: (1) there are often several different translations of even the most common East Asian terms and titles; and (2) the single most important English-language reference work on the Changes, Bent Nielsen’s A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology, is organized alphabetically by Pinyin transliterations only; it has no other index. For ease of reference I have created a few special entries under which related items are grouped together and listed alphabetically under a single heading rather than scattered throughout the index—for example, the categories “trigram references” and “hexagram references.” Finally, with the exception of a few particularly prominent individuals, I have not included the names of the many Westerners who have used and/or translated the Changes; they can be found easily enough by consulting the subsection of the main entry “Classic of Changes (Yijing)” under the titles “travels to the West of” and “translations of.”
aesthetics. See also art; literature; music
alchemy
almanacs
Ancient Text. See Old Text
Apocrypha (wei, chenwei, weishu)
art. See also aesthetics
astrology. See also astronomy
astronomy
auspicious (as a technical term; ji)
basic text (of the Changes) See also Zhou Changes
Balanced Compendium on the Zhou Changes (Zhouyi zhezhong)
Bhagavad Gita. See also Hinduism
Bible
binary system. See also Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Bouvet, Joachim. See also Jesuits
Buddhism
calendrical science
Cao Dai
cartography
Changes (Yi). See Classic of Changes and Zhou Changes
Chang Hyon-gwang
Chart of Heavenly Superiority and Earthly Subordination (Tianzun dibei tu)
Charts and diagrams
Chen Tuan
Cheng Yi
Cheng-Zhu school. See also neo-Confucianism; orthodoxy; principle (li)
Chong Yagyong
Christianity. See also Jesuits
classical Chinese language
Classic of Changes (Yijing): complexity of; countercultural uses of; cultural significance of (see also individual entries under art, literature, medicine, music, science); derivative versions of; globalization of (see also individual entries under Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Tibet); as a mirror; as a model of the cosmos; strategies and techniques of interpretation; translations of; travels to the West of. See also basic text; charts and diagrams; commentaries; cosmology, hexagram references; hexagram relationships; hexagrams, images; language; line statements; symbolism; Ten Wings; trigram relationships; trigrams, Zhou Changes
Classic of Great Mystery (Taixuan jing)
Classic of Poetry (Shijing)
classics; definitions of
commentaries. See also Ten Wings and the individual titles of these “wings”
Commentary on the Images (Xiangzhuan)
Commentary on the Judgments (Tuanzhuan)
Commentary on the Words of the Text (Wenyan zhuan).
Compass (luopan, luojing)
Complete Collection of the Four Treasuries (Siku quanshu)
Confucianism. See also Cheng-Zhu school; classics; Confucius; Neo-Confucianism; School of the Mind; School of Principle
Confucius
Correct Changes (Korean: Chongyok)
correlative thinking. See also correspondences; forced fit
correspondences
cosmic resonance. See also correspondences; cosmology
cosmology. See also correlative thinking; correspondences; cosmic resonance; Heaven; numerology
Dao (the Way)
Daoism. See also alchemy
deities. See also ghosts and spirits
Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate (Taiji tu)
digrams (aka four images, sixiang)
divination. See also astrology; Classic of Changes: interpretive strategies and techniques; Classic of Changes: use in divination; fengshui; oracle bones
dragon (long)
Earth. See also Heaven earthly branches (dizhi)
eclecticism. See also schools of interpretation
Eight Palaces (bagong)
geomancy. See fengshui
geomantic compass. See compass
Evidential Studies (kaozheng xue; also translated as Empirical Studies)
examination system. See also Japan and Korea
exemplary person (junzi; also translated as the “superior man,” noble person,”)
Explaining the Trigrams commentary (Shuogua zhuan)
Exploring the Origins of Things and Our Impulses to Action (Gengen hakki)
Fang Yizhi
fengshui (siting, geomancy). See also compass
Figurism. See also Jesuits
five agents (wuxing; also translated five phases, five activities, five qualities)
forced [cosmological] fit (qiangpei). See also correlative thinking; correspondences
Former Heaven Chart (Xiantian tu)
Former Heaven sequence (Xiantian; aka the Fuxi sequence of the trigrams or the hexagrams)
fortune-telling. See divination
four images (sixiang). See also digrams
Four Treasuries (Siku quanshu). See Complete Collection of the Four Treasuries
Fundamental Meaning of the Zhou Changes (Zhouyi benyi)
Fuxi
geomancy. See fengshui
ghosts and spirits (guishen)
Great Commentary (Dazhuan; aka Commentary on the Appended Statements [Xici zhuan])
Great One (Chinese: Taiyi; Vietnamese: Thai at)
Han Kangbo
Hangul (Korean) script
harmony
Heaven (Tian)
heavenly stems (tiangan)
heterodoxy. See also orthodoxy
hexagram references (alphabetical): Bi (8); Bi (22); Bo (23); Daguo (28); Daxu (26); Dayou (14); Dazhuang (34); Dui (58); Dun (33); Feng (55); Fu (24); Ge (49); Gen (52); Gou (44); Gu (18); Guan (20); Guimei (54); Heng (32); Huan (59); Jian (53); Jiji (63); Jin (35); Jing (48); Kan (29); Kuai (43); Kui (38); Kun (2); Kun (47); Li (30); Lin (19); Lü (10); Lü (56); Meng (4); Mingyi (36); Pi (12); Qian (1); Qian (15); Shi (7); Shihe (21); Song (6); Sui (17); Sun [Xun] (41); Sun (57); Tai (11); Tongren (13); Weiji (64); Xian (31); Xiaoguo (62); Xie (40); Xu (5); Yi (42)
hexagram relationships. See also correlations; hexagrams, inverted hexagrams; laterally linked hexagrams
hexagrams (gua): general interpretive approaches to; names and attributes of. See also hexagram relationships; Classic of Changes, “strategies and techniques of interpretation”
Hexagrams in Irregular Order commentary (Zagua zhuan)
Hinduism
Illustrated Explanation of Changes Scholarship (Korean: Yokhak tosol)
illustrations. See charts and diagrams
images (xiang; also translated as figures, emblems). See also Images and Numbers; symbolism
Images and Numbers (xiangshu)
incipience (ji; also translated as incipient moment, seminal first stirrings, trigger)
Introduction to the Study of the Changes (Yixue qimeng)
inverted or overturned hexagrams (fandui gua; fangua; zonggua; fanfu gua)
Islam
Japan
Jesuits
Jiang Yong
Jing Fang
Judaism
judgments (tuan or guaci; also translated hexagram statements, decisions, tags). See also Commentary on the Judgments
Jung, Carl Gustav
kabbala. See also Judaism
Kana (Japanese) script
Kangxi emperor
King Wen
Korea
Lai Zhide
lamas
language. See also classical Chinese language; symbolism; writing
Later Heaven Chart (Houtian tu)
Later Heaven sequence (Houtian; aka King Wen sequence)
laterally linked or interchanging hexagrams (pangtong; bianyi; cuogua)
law
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Li Guangdi
line relationships
line statements (yaoci)
lines (yao); changes in; description of; See also cosmic resonance; hexagram relationships; line relationships; line statements; trigram relationships
Linked Mountains (Lianshan)
literature
Lord on High (Shangdi)
lost images (yixiang)
Lotus Sutra (Sanskrit: Saddharmapundarikasutra)
lunar lodges (xiu)
Luo River Writing (Luoshu)
magic squares. See also Luo River Writing
Mao Qiling
Marxism
matching positions (dangwei)
mathematics. See also numbers and numerology
Mawangdui version of the Changes
Meanings and Principles (yili)
medicine
metaphysics. See also cosmology; numerology
milfoil divination. See also divination
mind (xin; also translated heart-and-mind, heart/mind)
modernization (and its discontents)
music
national pronunciation (Vietnamese: quoc am)
nationalism
nature. See Dao; Heaven; Supreme Ultimate
Needham, Joseph
Neo-Confucianism (Daoxue). See also Cheng-Zhu school; orthodoxy; School of the Mind; School of Principle
New Age
New Text (jinwen; also translated Modern Text)
Nom or Chu-Nom (Vietnamese) script
nuclear trigrams (hugua or huti; also translated overlapping hexagrams, interlacing hexagrams, interlocking trigrams)
numbers and numerology. See also Images and Numbers; mathematics
Nguyen, Binh
Old Text (guwen; also translated Ancient Text)
ominous or inauspicious (as a technical term; xiong)
Opening up the Regularities of Qian (Qian zao du; also transliterated Qian zuo du)
oracle bones
orthodoxy
petty or small person (xiaoren, contrasted with the exemplary person)
poetry
principle (li; also translated patterned regularities of existence). See also Meanings and Principles; School of Principle
Providing the Sequence of the Hexagrams (Xugua)
psychology
qi (variously energy, spirit, material force); cultivation of; relationship to principle (debates). See also cosmic resonance
Qur’an
Reflections on Things at Hand (Jinsi lu)
resonance. See cosmic resonance
Return to the Hidden (Guicang)
ritual (li; also translated ritual propriety, decorum). See also sacrifices
sacrifices. See also ritual
samurai
School of Evidential Studies. See Evidential Studies
School of Images and Numbers. See Images and Numbers
School of Meanings and Principles. See Meaning and Principles
School of Principle (lixue). See also Cheng–Zhu school; li (principle)
School of the Mind (xinxue)
schools of interpretation; limits of categories and labels. See also eclecticism and individual entries for particular “schools”
science
sex
Shao Yong
Shennong
Shinto
shogun
Siddhartha. See also Buddhism
siting. See fengshui
So, Kyongdok. See Hwadam
Solid Learning. See Evidential Studies
Songs [Explicating] the Zhou Changes in National Pronunciation (Vietnamese: Chu Dich quoc am ca)
spirit (jing or shen; also translated numinous, essence). See also cosmic resonance; ghosts and spirits
spirituality
spirit-writing
Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu)
stalk-casting process. See milfoil divination
stimulus-response (ganying). See cosmic resonance
Studies of Principle. See School of Principle
Studies of the Mind. See School of the Mind
superior man. See exemplary person
Supreme Principles that Rule the World (Huang ji jingshi shu)
Supreme Ultimate (Taiji)
sutras
symbolism. See also images
Talmud
Taoism. See Daoism
Tasan. See Chong Yagyong
Ten Wings (shiyi)
Theosophy
Three Powers (sancai; Heaven, Earth and Humanity)
Tibet
time (shi; also translated timing, situation, circumstances). See also incipience
T’oegye
Token for the Agreement of the Three According to the Zhou Changes (Zhouyi cantong qi)
Tokugawa Shogunate. See shogun
Torah. See Bible
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). See also medicine
trigram qualities/attributes (guade)
trigram references (alphabetical): Dui; Gen; Kan; Kun; Li; Qian; Sun [Xun]; Zhen; trigram relationships. See also hexagram relationships; line relationships
trigrams (gua); configurations of; as “force fields”; origins of. See also images; interlocking trigrams; trigram references; trigram relationships
Vedas
Vietnam
Wang Bi
White Beryl Treatise (Vaidurya dKar-po)
Wilhelm, Richard
women
word magic
writing. See also classical Chinese language; language; word magic
Xun Shuang
Yamaga, Soko
Yang Xiong
yangban
yarrow sticks. See milfoil divination
Yellow River Chart (Hetu)
Yi Hwang. See T’oegye
Yi Yulgok
Yijing. See Classic of Changes
yin and yang
Yohon. See Chang Hyongwang
Yu Fan
yuan, heng, li, and zhen (judgment of Qian)
Zheng Xuan
Zhou Changes (Zhouyi). See also basic text; Classic of Changes
Zhu Xi. See also Cheng-Zhu school
Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan)