The sixty-four, opened in full.
Browse all sixty-four hexagrams alongside James Legge's 1882 English translation. Both texts are public domain and free to read. Choose any hexagram, including Hexagram 48 from the archived casting.
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source — the received text, public domain; English after James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. XVI, 1882); open the page →Why the English reads old
Legge wrote in 1882, and it shows. He hedges, he parenthesizes, he explains the obvious and leaves the hard part standing. I keep him anyway, for two reasons. First, his translation is public domain — you can take these words anywhere, the way you can take a classic anywhere. Second, he is the one I check against. When my reading walks off, I walk it back to his page.
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