Divining with Achi and T?r? : Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and M?l? Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimensions

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

ISBN 10: 9004401954 / ISBN 13: 9789004401952

Published by Brill Sep 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Divining with Achi and Tara by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch with contributions by Solvej Nielsen offers an introduction to and two detailed case studies of Tibetan dice and prayer bead divination. Translations, interviews, and glossaries and appendices enrich an already valuable book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Divining with Achi and T?r? : Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and M?l? Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimensions
• Publisher: Brill Sep 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004401954
• ISBN 13: 9789004401952
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 157H x 23D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jan-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.