A BIOGRAPHY OF THE 'I CHING'

Richard J. Smith, The I Ching: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2012) ("Despite the great and often glaring differences separating the Yijing from such religious classics as the Bible, the Talmud, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Lotus Sutra, it deserves to be considered one of the great works of spiritually inspired world literature." Id. at 211. "The sustained appeal of the Yijing rests primarily in three related areas, all of which apply to many other classic works as well: (1) the intellectual challenges it poses, (2) the psychological insights it encourages, and (3) the creative inspiration it affords, not least by virtue of its powerful and pervasive symbolism." Id. at 212.).