“The Book of Changes—I Ching [Yijing; Book of Changes] in Chinese—is unquestionably one of the most important books in the world’s literature,” as its eminent translator Richard WilhelmWilhelm, Richard (1873–1930) has rightly asserted (WilhelmWilhelm, Richard/BaynesBaynes, Cary F. 1967, p. xlvii). Richard Smith (2012), p. 211) also maintained that the Yijing “deserves to be considered one of the great works of spiritually inspired world literature,” with its multifarious identities as a historical work, an encyclopedia, an early scientific treatise, and a mathematical model of the universe. Over the past centuries, the Yijing has emerged as a world classic that has built global bridges between different textual, philosophical and religious traditions.