Eight bagua, Eight designs, Eight trigrams: 1 definition
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Eight bagua means something in the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems (h)The Eight Bagua refers to the trigrams of the Classic of Changes; they are known in Tibetan as p膩 bkwa brgyad.鈥擜ccordingly, [while describing the non-Buddhist Chinese traditions and confucian divination]: [...] At the time of the first Huang monarch, King Fu Xi, there emerged from the great Huang He (Yellow River) in the province now called Henan, a dragon-horse, with a midsection like a horse and a head and tail like a dragon. On its back were the bagua or eight designs (trigrams), which, in Tibetan, owing to mispronunciation, are called parkha. Seeing them, Fu Xi created the bagua emblems. He expanded the eight bagua to sixty-four [hexagrams] by combining the eight trigrams with each other and explained them in a text he composed called Lianshan. [...]
The Eight Bagua are:
- qian (heaven),
- kun (earth),
- zhen (thunder),
- xun (wind),
- kan (water),
- li (fire),
- gen (mountain), and
- dui (valley)
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Bagua.
Full-text (+12): Bagua, Gen, Qian, Zhen, Xun, Thunder, Valley, Dui, Kan, Kun, Mountain, Heaven, Earth, Fire, Wind, Veshin, Li, Shishu, yig cha bzhi, Lunyu.
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Shurangama Sutra (with commentary) (English) (by Hsuan Hua)
Destiny of Immortals < [Chapter 4 - The Seven Destinies]