: Detailed charts showing the mathematical values and shifts within the hexagrams.
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.
: Analysis of how hexagrams oppose or complement each other within the "abstract order".
: Unlike common translations like the Richard Wilhelm version, Govinda provides a resource book that explores the geometric designs and the relationship between the I Ching and Tibetan Buddhism .
If you tell me which part of the I Ching's structure you're most interested in, I can provide more detail: The of hexagrams? The diagrams and their geometric meanings? The connection between Buddhism and the I Ching ? Lama Anagarika Govinda - The Inner Structure of the I Ching
: The book introduces the eight symbols of transformation and aligns the five Chinese elements ( wood, fire, earth, iron, and water ) with the Chinese zodiac.