Tai-xuan-jing (English: Tai-xuan-jing)

Japanese: 太玄経 - たいげんきょう（英語表記）Tai-xuan-jing

A book written by the Chinese thinker Yang Xiong of the Western Han Dynasty. It is an updated version of the Book of Changes (Zhouyi) that attempts to more accurately predict the fate of mankind. He claims that human phenomena originate from Xuan (nothingness) as spoken of in the Laozi, and that the three basic factors are heaven, earth, and man, and that they can be understood as combinations of these. He creates diagrams of these combinations in 81 lines, and each line is accompanied by nine annotations that symbolize the development of the phenomenon from beginning to end. The 729 annotations in total show all the developments in human affairs, day and night, every day. Yang Xiong took great pains to create this work, and is proud of it, and some scholars highly revere it.

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Japanese:

中国，前漢の思想家揚雄の著書。『易経 (周易) 』を改修して，一層精密な人間の運命を予言する書としようとしたもの。人間の諸現象は，『老子』の唱える「玄 (無) 」を根源とし，天・地・人を基本要因とし，その組合せでとらえられるとして，その組合せの 81首の図式をつくり，さらに各首にその現象の終始の展開を象徴する9賛をつけている。全部で 729賛が日々昼夜の人事の展開をことごとく示しているとする。揚雄の苦心，自負の作で，推尊した学者もある。

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