Hexagram

symbol to have significance, its meaning must be known to the viewer. The Star of David was a six pointed hexagram that did not originate from Judaism, however it affected a large amount of the Jews lives, it also contributed to amulets…

Because these are all unbroken lines, this hexagram provides an “unrestricted outpouring of benevolent energy from the heavens,” making it possible to progress quickly and profoundly, attaining success. (Walker) However, one must remain humble, accepting and righteous in order to receive this assistance from the Universe. The second hexagram, K’un, the Receptive, is composed of only broken lines and its image earth, making it the perfect compliment to chi’en. The broken line represents the…

also hang a Khamsa around animals to safeguard their health. It is serves as the protective hand of God. The Christian Cross: The cross is the symbol of Christians across the world from ages, but not always. In many early civilizations Tau equal-armed cross used to represent god and goddesses. In Christianity, Lord Jesus was crucified and died on the cross. When Christians wear cross pendants it reminds them of the sacrifice Jesus made for them and the existence of God’s love. The Jewish Star of…

Chinese tradition used bones and tortoise shell lines to read what the future held. The ancient book known as Yijing (I Ching) meaning the book of changes was used to construe life in hexagram form (Molloy 2013 p208). The Yihing traces back to yang and yin. The hexagram consists of two trigrams, each line representing either yang or yin. The Shamans, who performed these rituals, would toss coins or sticks into the air and determine their meaning based upon the order they landed and record that…

Leibniz worked frequently with binary. The hexagrams previously mentioned come from an ancient Chinese king and philosopher called Fu Xi, who is said to be the father of Chinese writing. Leibniz wanted to understand the writing system so that he could further his goal of creating a global scientific community (Ryan). Leibniz wrote to one of his Jesuit correspondents in China who immediately related the binary system Leibniz described to the works of Fu Xi. Discovering the binary system in the…

Vietnamese people. Please understand, this is not the culture of Buddhism. The first group believes that a temple is a sacred place. Tet Day is regarded as the first day of a year. If they go to the temple that day, they believe their whole year will be a blessing. They will be blessed by a Buddha, providing that luck and peace will come throughout the year. They will not be afraid to bathe themselves in an area of smoky incenses in front of the Buddhist altar. They pick a branch of…

Before Confucianism there was the Mandate of Heaven and the Classic of Changes. The Mandate was led by the Zhou dynasty (1122 BC - 256 B.C.). This doctrine asserted the ruler’s accountability to a supreme moral force that guides the human community. The Mandate caused a lot of internally fighting amongst dynasties because it decriminalized constant rebellions. The Classic of Changes was published in the 9th BC and was said to be have complied by a mythical hero Fu Xi. These were sets of six…

dialectical monism, the unbroken line represents Yang, while the broken line represents Yin. Yin and Yang then combine to create the eight trigrams representing different basic principles of reality, and pairs of trigrams combine to create the sixty-four hexagrams, which I Ching explains in every detail. Every line, every position, every trigram, and every hexagram have different significances, meanings, and functions. Chou translates these eight trigrams into the eight variable modes. He…

Common deities supplicated by the Young Master were “Yama, the ruler of the underworld, and Kuan-yin, the bodhisattva of compassion” (318). The rituals performed were highly structured. They were carried out at temples on bamboo stages constructed solely for the purpose of the service configured “in the shape of the Book of Change's eight basic hexagrams” and performed at certain times, usually “between the hours of midnight and dawn” (318). The ceremony highlights the importance of honoring the…

gallery, in room 2550, on the second floor of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum on Harvard University Campus. The object number is 1960.102. It is located with a series of Ottoman tiles on the Eastern-most wall of the one-room gallery. The tile, created between 1520 and 1540, is from Iznik, Turkey. It is composed of fritware ceramic painted under glaze. The shape is a hexagon with a circular floral pattern derived from a central decoration. The pattern is very repetitive, yet incredibly intricate.…