CHARLES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARTS, DEPARTMENT OF SINOLOGY HISTORY
AND CULTURE OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES DOCTORAL DISSERTATION …

Excavated texts from the fourth century BC bring new elements previously thought missing in
the earliest Chinese thought. They develop cosmological theories comparable to those …

Abstract The Taiyi shengshui 太一生水is one of only a few texts in the early Chinese corpus
to present a detailed cosmogony, one that traces the beginnings of the cosmos back to a …

The history of Daoism in the later Six Dynasties and early Tang remains one of the least
understood fields of Chinese history of religion and philosophy. This is not due to a lack of …

Several excavated cosmological texts from the Warring States period encourage their
readers to stop practicing divination and relying on ancestral authority and instead start …

Hengxian: stages of cosmic unfolding--Taiyi shengshui: textual structure and conceptual
layers--Fanwu liuxing: from oneness to multiplicity--Huangdi sijing: governing through …

The history of cosmology in China is something of a dead topic, our interest in “cosmology”
having shifted in recent years to divination, political prophecy, and the metaphysics of …

Abstract The Heng Xian is one of the recently discovered paleographic materials that
disclose a heretofore unknown richness of the cosmogonic thought of early China and …

The present thesis sets out to examine a divination manual entitled Jiaoshi Yilin 焦氏易林_
(Mister Jiao's Forest of Changes), which began to circulate around the late Western Han …

This paper investigates, in a comparative fashion, the common quest for the Dao by authors
of the Xunzi and the Xici zhuan of the Book of Changes to come to terms with political and …