concept

Tiānmìng

Beliefs & concepts

Mandate of Heaven as named Chinese political-moral sanction. Not tian as Heaven alone, and not providence as Christian care alone.

Also known as Tianming · Mandate of Heaven

Chinese tradition

  • Tiānmìng appears in Chinese tradition.

    Wilhelm’s Yijing heaven-speech seats Heaven’s mandate / allotted charge among Creative and rulership counsel of the Changes. A named tianming in that classic’s political-moral neighborhood, not tian as the sky/trigram row alone and not providence as Christian care alone.

    from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.