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Divining with Achi and Tārā: Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and Mālā Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimens (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004401952)
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xDivining 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.
Author: Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
ISBN-10: 9004401954
ISBN-13: 9789004401952
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2019
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
Author: Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
ISBN-10: 9004401954
ISBN-13: 9789004401952
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2019
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
By Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
xJan-Ulrich Sobisch, formerly professor for Tibetan Studies at Copenhagen University, now researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum, is best known for his work on Tibetan vow theories, Tibetan tantric transmissions, and his exploration of the dGongs gcig teachings of the Drikung Kagyü tradition.
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