What is the difference between the Bagua and Pakua?

I'm new to martial arts and wanted to know.

 

Different spellings of the same thing.

 

Hi,

What he said!

I've got nothing to add - it just seemed a shame that the thread was so short

All the best.

Robert.

 

Some of the systems used to transliterate Chinese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization#Chinese

 

is that the same with wing chun and ving tsun?

 

Same thing but those refer to different organizations of the same style.

 

Thanks for the answers.

 

bagua is the master art....pakua is a cheap imitation.

jk!

 

PRC Pinyin vs. Yale Romanization

 

Bagua is nice with cheese and pickle... Pakua goes nice with noodles and chicken? lol
:yeleyes:

 

http://www.shenwu.com/bagua.htm

 

Bagua, ba gua, pakua, pa-kua, pa-koa, etc, are all refer to the same things. These are Western phonetic spellings of the two symbols for "ba" and "gua."

However, from this there are a multitude of things pakua refers to. There is "the bagua" which is a mirror surrounded by trigrams that you see for sale in feng shui stores and such. "Pakua" also refers to a martial art, traditionally meaning circular movements for redirection and manipulation (this is my understanding, I'm sure others have similar but different versions), and an "internal" style. However, I also have heard that "pakua," translated as "8 transitions of change," refering to a method of thinking involving the I-Ching and an application of these changes to anything (so you can have pakua chuan, pakua chang, pakua sword, pakua cooking, etc).

Hope that helps.

 

Bagua= red wine
Pa Kua= White wine