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Sunday, 14 September 2025

The ghost-feeing hymn in the Yuqie Yankou 瑜伽焰口

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In this post I will translate the hymn of feeding ghosts from the 瑜伽焰口 YujiaYyankou/Yuqie Yankou    Hun Yeow Lye in his PHD thesis, entitled...
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Chinese astrology: interpretations of shooting stars

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Chinese Divination on shooting stars 自《陶朱公致富奇書》 From Tao Zhugong's Wonder book bettering wealth Tao Zhugong's Wonderbook for Betteri...
Friday, 20 June 2025

Alan Leo's Centiloquy

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Tucked in the very back of Alan Leo's How to judge a nativity, (1928) is his "centiloquy" , or collection of 100 short astrol...
Sunday, 11 May 2025

The wondrous Oracles of the the God of Travellers 水陸總管公靈籤

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The wondrous Oracles of Shui Lu Tsung Kwan Kung. 水陸總管公靈籤 ShuiLu Zhongguan gong Lingqian The Numinous Lots of the God of Water and Land    I ...
Friday, 9 May 2025

玉樞經髓 - The Marrow of the Scripture of the Jade Pivot, translated by James Legge

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玉樞經髓  The Marrow of the Scripture of the Jade Pivot,  translated by James Legge in his The Texts of Taoism (1891)  *********** In this post ...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

Di Zi Gui 弟子規 Rules for children-- Two English translations

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in this post I  will present two nineteenth century English translations of the the book called  弟子規 CR:  Rules  for Sons and Younger Brothe...
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

The Sutra of the Sun and moon: Part 2: The Sutra of the Moon 太陰星君聖經

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In this post I will translate The Sutra of the Moon 太陰星君聖經, or Sutra of the Stellar Worthy of the Great Yin  which is a hymn to the Moon. I...