Yi Jing iphone app Updated With Two New Translations...

[fkegan]

Yi Jing iphone app Updated With Two New Translations
(Likely release date: July 21, 2009)
[July 21-22, 2009 is date of the longest Total Solar Eclipse until June 13, 2132]
Southborough, MA - Flat Earth Studio today announces its version 1.3 software update for Yi Jing, also known as I Ching, the Book of Changes, for the iPhone and iPod touch. This update includes “Yi Jing / Book of Changes” by Gregory C. Richter, and “Gia-Fu Taoist I Ching” by Gia-Fu Feng and Frank R. Kegan.

“Yi Jing / Book of Changes” is a direct translation from Chinese with pinyin (contemporary standard pronunciation), gloss, and a clear English translation. Gregory C. Richter is a professor at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO, who has taught linguistics, German, Russian, Latin, French, and Chinese. Originally from California, he earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego in 1983. He has previously translated poetry in Icelandic and French, psychoanalytic works in German, and Buddhist scriptures in Tocharian. His translations from Chinese include a rendering of the Tao Te Ching (The Gate of All Marvelous Things: A Guide to Reading the Tao Te Ching, Red Mansions Publishing, 1998, distributed by China Books, San Francisco).

“Gia-Fu Taoist I Ching” is a Taoist translation of the 1716 Yi done at Stillpoint in 1974 by Gua-Fu Feng with Frank R. Kegan. Gia-Fu was a true Chinese and a natural born Taoist who revered the I Ching as a Chinese Classic. He worked on translations of Taoist texts with the Stillpoint community. Frank R. Kegan brought to Stillpoint his experience with the Oracle of the I Ching and his involvement as a professional astrologer in his community back in Chicago. Gia-Fu took refuge in their work on the taoist Translation of the I Ching from the chaos of American culture. By the end of summer 1974, their work on the I Ching was complete and Frank retired from Stillpoint with their unpublished manuscript in its Kinko’s copy shop paper bag until now.

Yi Jing v1.0 was chosen as an iTunes App Store Staff Selection in May 2009. The v1.1 update, with Carol K. Anthony’s “A Guide to the I Ching” in both English and German, and the v1.2 update with minor enhancements to the journal, have both received uniformly positive reviews.

I Ching (Yi Jing) is the definitive mobile version of I Ching, the Book of Changes, done the way it was meant to be experienced. One of the oldest books written has been re-crafted to take advantage of the unique features of your mobile device. One single App contains all of the features you would expect, including a question oracle, an integrated journal, and book text in multiple translations and interpretations.

Supported Languages

English, German, Chinese

Supported Devices

Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update

Pricing and Availability

I Ching (Yi Jing) is available for only $3.99 (USD) through the Apple App Store. An evaluation copy is available upon request. Please contact us for interview and/or commentary.

[fkegan]

The new version of the I Ching app for ipod (TM) is out now and available at:

http://www.flatearthstudio.com/Apps/Apps.html

as alluded to in the Press Release.

It now has 5 translations, one in Chinese from:

http://www.chinapage.com/classic/iching/yijing.html

Carol Anthony's text in English and German
Another in German which I don't read

And three in English:
One by Brian Arnold,
One by Gregory Richter
And Gia-Fu Feng's Taoist translation of the 1716 Yi with Frank R. Kegan
the app has Chinese coins that one touches to flip them and then touches the line formed to put it into the hexagram gua. There is a journal to keep track of your oracles and interpretation text from each of the books and for my Gia-Fu text from my website as well as a link where you can go to the Taoist I Ching page on my web site (and from there to any other pages there.

It has everything and is very, very cool.:cool:

Frank

[philish]

Alright. This makes me want to finally go invest in one of those things! iphone, I may soon be yours. :D

[fkegan]

Hi Philish,
Great idea. Though I hear through the grapevine that the IPOD (R) is addictive, they say Bill Gates was last seen disappeared into one. It is peculiar to watch someone engrossed in the device, but they can do everything now. There is a free app that reads downloaded books, another that tracks folks on Twitter in your neighborhood (giving their distance from you) and much more than the mere mortal likes of you or I can imagine.

Using one is a step smaller than a notebook computer which does set up a series that would form eventually a channel into the infinitesimal. If you get down to below the chip level you are in Tron.

It takes awhile to get used to how you navigate them but then its an entire alternative reality...and, as they used to say of other things, at least you are happy as you go...

Frank

[fkegan]

The cover shown for Gia-fu's Taoist Translation of the I Ching (with my assistance) is the scan of the inscription from Gia-fu to me including his traditional chop mark, date and Taoist imprimatur. It is rather small in my itouch. However, I have also put in as the lead graphic to my web page of the translation, URL in my signature.

Frank R. Kegan