The Inner Structure Of The I Ching : The Book O... May 2026

Lama Anagarika Govinda’s The Inner Structure of the I Ching: The Book of Transformations is a unique structural and philosophical analysis of the ancient Chinese text, shifting the focus from divination to the mathematical and geometric logic of the trigrams and hexagrams. Govinda, a prominent scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, integrates Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist thought to reveal the "inner structure" of the I Ching as a representation of the human mind's relationship with the phenomenal world.

Govinda departs from traditional Chinese commentaries to explore the intrinsic system of the I Ching.

: Analysis of how hexagrams oppose or complement each other within the "abstract order".

: Detailed charts showing the mathematical values and shifts within the hexagrams.

If you tell me which part of the I Ching's structure you're most interested in, I can provide more detail: The of hexagrams? The diagrams and their geometric meanings? The connection between Buddhism and the I Ching ? Lama Anagarika Govinda - The Inner Structure of the I Ching