| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Prognostication in history,
2589-4404 ;
volume 1
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Prognostication in history.
2589-4404 ; volume 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Interviews -- Translation of the Achi mo -- Mālā divination. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English and Tibetan. |
| Subject |
Divination -- Tibet Region.
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Divination. |
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Tibet Region. |
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Fortune-telling by dice -- Tibet Region.
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Fortune-telling by dice. |
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A-phyi Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma (Buddhist deity)
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A-phyi Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma (Buddhist deity) |
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Tibet Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, translator, editor.
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Hyveled Nielsen, Solvej, 1987- contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Divining with Achi and Tārā. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004401952 (DLC) 2019025577 |
| ISBN |
9004402624 (electronic book) |
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9789004402621 (electronic book) |
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9789004401952 (hardcover) |
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