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Dice and gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist dice divination in transcultural context / by Brandon Dotson, Constance A, Cook, Zhao Lu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dotson, Brandon, 1978- author.
- Cook, Constance A., author.
- Lu, Zhao (Professor of China studies), author.
- Series:
- Prognostication in history ; v. 7.
- Prognostication in history ; volume 7
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divination--China.
- Divination.
- Dice--Religious aspects.
- Hinduism.
- China.
- Divination--Tibet Region.
- Divination--India.
- Divination--Silk Road.
- Faith and reason--Buddhism.
- Faith and reason.
- Buddhism.
- Dice--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Dice.
- Dice--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- India.
- Tibet Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Chinese.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods
- 1. The Divination of Maheśvara
- 2. The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination
- 3. The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination
- Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind
- Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dotson, Brandon, 1978- Dice and gods on the silk road
- ISBN:
- 9789004464377
- 9004464379
- Publisher Number:
- 40030651818
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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