| Taixuanjing | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 太玄經 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 太玄经 | ||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Tàixuánjīng | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Classic of Supreme Mystery" | ||||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||||
| Hangul | 태현경 | ||||||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||||
| Hiragana | たいげんきょう | ||||||||||||
| Kyūjitai | 太玄經 | ||||||||||||
| Shinjitai | 太玄経 | ||||||||||||
The Taixuanjing is a divination guide composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE) in the decade prior to the fall of the Western Han dynasty. The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE; during the Jin dynasty, an otherwise unknown person named Fan Wang (范望) salvaged the text and wrote a commentary on it, from which our text survives today.