China

Taixuanjing

太玄經 (Classic of Supreme Mystery)

A single cosmic principle, the Xuan or Mystery, generates change through a structure of eighty-one tetragrams rather than the Yijing's sixty-four hexagrams, offering a rival, more mathematically regular map of how the cosmos unfolds.

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  • I Ching (Book of Changes) · c. 900-200 BC (core hexagram and line texts Western Zhou; the Ten Wings commentarial layer added across the Warring States and Han)

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