Divining with Achi and Tārā: comparative remarks on Tibetan dice and mālā divination : tools, poetry, structures, and ritual dimensions
"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 Tibe...
| Contributors: | ; |
|---|---|
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Tibetan |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2019]
|
| In: |
Prognostication in history (volume 1)
Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Prognostication in history
volume 1 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma
/ Tara Goddess
/ Divination
B Lamaism / Cube / Prayer chain / Divination |
| Further subjects: | B
Divination (Tibet Region)
B A-phyi Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma (Buddhist deity) B Fortune-telling by dice (Tibet Region) |
| Online Access: |
Table of Contents |