YIJING (635–713), Chinese Buddhist translator and traveler to India. Born Zhang Wenming, a native of Qizhou (modern Shandong province), Yijing left his family at the age of seven and lived in a Buddhist monastery, where he studied under the...

I-Ching Born 634 Died c. 712 I-Ching was one of a large number of Chinese Buddhist monks who traveled to India—the birthplace of Buddhism— to visit holy sites and study original religious texts there. One early Buddhist traveler was the...

634-712 Chinese Pilgrim As a Buddhist monk who traveled to India from China, I-ching followed in the footsteps of earlier pilgrims Fa-hsien (c. 334-c. 422) and Hsüan-tsang (602-664). He did not, however, follow them in a literal sense: instead of...

I Ching or Yi Jing (Yìjìng, Yiqing, I-Tsing or YiChing) (義淨, 三藏法師義淨 635-713) was a Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, originally named Zhang Wen Ming (張文明). The written records of his travels contributed to the world knowledge of the...

I remember back in college, and especially in graduate school at Harvard, countless, endless bull sessions (some influenced by wine; some egged on a bit further by pitchers of beer, in which I was, like, totally transported into the subjunctive) that were shaped by...

Being asked to "choose one children's book" is a little like that old game, "If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, what one book would you want?" I chose the I Ching: The Book of Changes because I felt it was...

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks—we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. We know that the dance is a thing apart from the music; that elements of the dance have been determined by chance procedures, often...

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks—we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. We know that the dance is a thing apart from the music; that elements of the dance have been determined by chance procedures, often...