Yijing (I Ching) Links

I have trawled through what seems like hundreds of Yijing sites making this list. These are the ones which caught my eye. I shall be adding more sites to this list as I run regular searches of the Web.

 

If you have a site or know of a site you would like us to feature please do send us a link from here.

 

 

Blogs

 

Answers - Hilary Barrett

A wide ranging Yijing blog which is both engaging and informative.

http://onlineclarity.co.uk/answers/

 

Harmen Mesker

Harmen is thorough going and interesting. His blog is definitely worth reading.

However he does try tie the text down to a single meaning when it is clearly written in symbolic form which encourages the reader to explore possibilities. 

http://www.itcn.nl/serendipity/categories/1-English

 

 

Communities

 

Online Clarity - Hilary Barrett

A friendly Yijing community with a number of areas including a members discussion area and an area for ’Divination, advice and tips.’ Hilary also offers a reading service and courses.

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/messages/board-topics.html 

 

Midaughters I Ching - Mary Halpin

A forum which covers a broad area centred on Daoism, Yijing, and spirituality, strong on spiritual content with a great variety of posts.  I read it cautiously.

Worth a visit, it definitely has its moments.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Midaughter/

 

 

Sites with interesting material

 

Walkin' Coyote & Candid's Cave

This is a beautiful site where pictures, word images, ideas and insights come together in an extraordinary way. In places the authors seem to collaborate in others they follow their own paths. Bruce and Coyote (aka LiSe Heyboer) have many years studying and helping others with the Yijing, but that misses the point of what they are doing here. This is a place to come and reflect.

http://www.yijing.nl/

 

University of Yourself - Ron Masa

Ron is an experienced worker with dreams as well as the Yijing. I bought his Yijing sound recordings and was impressed. There is a preview recording to give the flavour. This man is a gifted teacher and I would recommend these recordings to anyone starting out with the Yijing. This site is growing rapidly so if you like what you see, keep visiting.

http://www.universityofyourself.com/iching.html

 

Book of Sun and Moon – LiSe Heyboer

LiSe’s website is based on the earliest ‘Oracle bone’ glyphs. She has translated these herself and honed them with many years of use. She has also posted a number of thought provoking papers which are the result of her research. Recently she has been developing more contemplative content. These have beautiful words and images. Places to be still and feel the Yijing inside.

http://www.anton-heyboer.org/

 

I Ching – Scott Davis

Writings by an excellent author and one time contributor to ‘The Oracle Papers.’ Scott Davies is one of those quiet lights that should be leading.

http://www.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp/faculty/sdavis/

 

Chinese Studies - Maria Khayutina

Offers a series of interesting articles, including one on ‘Ancestral Rituals Evolution in Ancient China’. These are academic papers which are helpful to those of us who want to delve deeper into the Yijing’s roots and the cultural foundations from which it grew.

www.sinits.com/research/index.html.

 

Yijing Dao - Steve Marshall

An introduction to the Yijing, some  interesting web links and a full copy of the Harvard Yenching  Zhouyi in Chinese and Pinyin. The site is mainly given over to Steve’s quite opinionated book reviews which, though thorough, seem to take delight in their harshness. He is the author of the "Mandate of Heaven," a book from which I gained a great deal.

http://www.yijing.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

 

Oracle Bone and Translation - David N. Keightley

This page has a picture of an Oracle bone and a translation of the writing on it. Really worth a look.  The glyphs used on this site and in our program were originally taken from such as this. Sometimes when I am reading some complex and erudite thesis on the Yijing I like to remember these bones and the culture which first cracked them in consultation. For me they were at the heart of the matter.

http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/translation.html

 

ICREA - Danny Van Den Berghe

This site has recently been developed and now has a forum. There is an extremely interesting and thought provoking article mapping the King Wen sequence onto the Chinese landscape. In addition there is material on 5 Element theory and software For Feng Shui and the ‘Four Pillars’ approach.

http://www.fourpillars.net/index.php

 

Oyster Bay - Journals - Dennis Mair

Articles on a number of topics including The King Wen Sequence, Trigram Qualities, the Bagua; Yin and Yang and more. I do not like most of the ideas here, but others do. Try it!

http://www.yijingpoetics.net/oysterbay/ichingtitle.html

 

Hermetica.Info - Bradford Hatcher

Bradford’s Yijing translation and commentary is posted here, free to download. In addition there are a number of articles which include a history of the Yijing, humour in the Yijing and the ‘dimensions’ or components of the Yijing matrix. His ‘Matrix Translation’ is an attempt, to get beyond the 'one English word for each Chinese character' limitation which plagues most Yijing translations.

http://www.hermetica.info/

 

 

Courses

 

Courses Online Clarity – Hilary Barrett

Hilary offers a mentoring service where she helps people develop their skills and understanding by working with them on their own readings. She is a skilled communicator able to work at different levels - This should be good.

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_reading/index.html

 

Also on offer is a suite of courses from Basics to advanced, as self study to correspondence based, with and without audio. Again these come recommended for those who want to establish a good foundation to their Yijing divination.

http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/practical_I_Ching/tutor/

 

Oriental College

A University Course at BA-MA level (4 years):
"To develop a thorough foundation for the insight into all ways of Chinese thinking, especially in Yijing thinking.
To set up a practice as Yijingologist, oraculist and/or Yijing researcher."

Harmen Mesker is one of the teachers. I expect that this course is well founded and thorough going.

http://www.orientalcollege.org/yijing/index.htm

 

 

Bibliographies

 

Great Vessel 

A selection of books for beginners and an extensive list of texts which underpin Stephen's approach to the Yijing.  The books listed here will allow the reader to delve into many areas of the Yi and ancient Chinese culture and thought. Arranged by subject area.

Great Vessel Biblio. 

 

 Hacker, Edward, Steve Moore and Lorraine Patsco

I Ching: An Annotated Bibliography. (2002)

A comprehensive review of 149 different books relating to Yijing studies. This is a valuable source.

View.

 

Hermetica.Info - Bradford Hatcher

Bradford’s Bibliography is very useful. Essentially he splits the titles up into groups two of which are those that he did and did not find useful in his studies.

http://www.hermetica.info/F-YiBib.htm

 

Rice University - Richard J Smith

Richard's 'Topically Organised Bibliography' is designes for both his students and for redearch. He has marked those he thinks more essential with an asterisk system.

http://www.aasianst.org/eaa/smith.htm#TOB

 

 

Yijing (I Ching) Links Sites and Directories

 

I – Ching Bookmarks – Lorraine Patsco

A good site listing older Yijing web links.

(This site does not appear to have been updated since 2005)

http://www.zhouyi.com/

 

The I Ching on the Net - Greg Whincup

A site giving older Yijing web links by category.

(This site does not appear to have been updated since 2005)

http://pacificcoast.net/%7Ewh/Index.html

 

Google Directory – I Ching

Another directory listing of Yijing sites.

I have a suspicion that Google has swallowed dmoz (see below) and that they are the same.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Divination/I_Ching/

 

dmoz directory – I Ching

Another directory listing of Yijing sites.

http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Divination/I_Ching/

  

VSpirit and Sky

Yet another directory listing Yijing links.

http://www.spiritandsky.com/divination/i-ching/index.html