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Divining with Achi and Tārā : comparative remarks on Tibetan dice and mālā divination : tools, poetry, structures, and ritual dimensions / translated and introduced by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch ; with contributions by Solvej Hyveled Nielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Prognostication in History; volume1.
- Prognostication in History; volume1
- Language:
- English
- Tibetan
- Subjects (All):
- Divination--Tibet Region.
- Divination.
- Fortune-telling by dice--Tibet Region.
- Fortune-telling by dice.
- A-phyi Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma (Buddhist deity).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English and Tibetan.
- Summary:
- Divining with Achi and Tārā is a book on Tibetan methods of prognostics with dice and prayer beads ( mālā ). Jan-Ulrich Sobisch offers a thorough discussion of Chinese, Indian, Turkic, and Tibetan traditions of divination, its techniques, rituals, tools, and poetic language. Interviews with Tibetan masters of divination introduce the main part with a translation of a dice divination manual of the deity Achi that is still part of a living tradition. Solvej Nielsen contributes further interviews, a mālā divination of Tārā and its oral tradition, and very useful glossaries of the terminology of Tibetan divination and fortune telling. Appendices provide lists of deities and spirits and of numerous identified ritual remedies and supports that are an essential element of a still vibrant Tibetan culture.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Interviews
- Translation of the Achi Mo
- Mālā Divination
- Back Matter
- Glossary of Deities and Spirits
- Alphabetical List of Ritual Remedies and Supports
- Bibliography
- Indexes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-40262-4
- OCLC:
- 1107802764
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004402621 DOI
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