I Ching

(noun)

An ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics, which uses hexagrams to provide guidance for moral decision making and upright living.

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Examples of I Ching in the following topics:

  • Chinese Philosophy

    • Ceremonies and rituals based on the Five Classics, especially the I Ching, were strongly instituted.
    • He did so in a book called Tao Te Ching, and was never seen again.

  • The Mongol Invasions

    • The name of the dynasty originated from the I Ching and describes the "origin of the universe" or a "primal force."

  • Timeline

    • 300 CE: The oldest known version of the Tao Te Ching is written on bamboo tablets.
    • 380 CE: Theodosius I declares Nicene Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.

  • Ceramics under the Song Dynasty

    • Chinese collectors have noted a greater variety of Longquan ware and devised a special vocabulary to describe them such as meizi ching or "plum green" celadon.

  • Pantheism

    • Specifically, the Tao te Ching never speaks of a transcendent God, but of a mysterious and numinous ground of being underlying all things and that the divine is found in all aspects of nature.

  • Religion Under the Tang Dynasty

    • It has its roots in the book of the Tao Te Ching (attributed to Laozi in the 6th century BCE) and the Zhuangzi.

  • Repeated Scattering with Low Optical Depth

    • $\displaystyle A \equiv \frac{E_f}{E_i} \sim \frac{4}{3} \langle \gamma^2 \rangle = 16 \left ( \frac{kT}{mc^2} \right )^2.$
    • The probability that a photon will scatter as it passes through a medium is simply $\tau_{es}$ if the optical depth is low, and the probability that it will undergo $k$ scatterings $p_k \sim \tau_{es}^k$ and its energy after $k$ scatterings is $E_k=A^k E_i$, so we have
    • $\displaystyle I(E_k) = I(E_i) \exp \left ( \frac{\ln\tau_{es} \ln\frac{E_k}{E_i}}{\ln A} \right ) = I(E_i) \left ( \frac{E_k}{E_i} \right )^{-\alpha}$
    • $\displaystyle P = \int_{E_i}^{A^{1/2}mc^2} I(E_k) dE_k = I(E_i) E_i \left [ \int_1^{A^{1/2} mc^2/E_i} x^{-\alpha} dx \right ].$

  • Eigenvectors and Orthogonal Projections

    • $\left( \mathbf{v}_i \mathbf{v}_i ^T \right) \mathbf{x} = (\mathbf{v}_i ^T \mathbf{x}) \mathbf{v}_i $
    • For the operator $\mathbf{v}_i \mathbf{v}_i ^T $ this is obviously true since $\mathbf{v}_i ^T \mathbf{v}_i = 1$ .
    • $\displaystyle{\sum _ {i=1} ^ m \mathbf{v}_i \mathbf{v}_i ^T = V V^ T = I . }$
    • $\displaystyle{\sum _ {i=1} ^ r \mathbf{v}_i \mathbf{v}_i ^T = V_r V_r ^ T }$
    • $\displaystyle{\sum _ {i=r+1} ^ m \mathbf{v}_i \mathbf{v}_i ^T = V_0 V_0 ^T}$

  • Alexander I's Domestic Reforms

  • Fourth (Or I) Conjugation