Dice and Gods on the Silk Road
Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context
Series: Prognostication in History; 7;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 3 June 2021
- ISBN 9789004461208
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 716 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This interdisciplinary collaboration is the first in-depth study of Chinese Buddhist dice divination. It situates the tenth-century ?Divination of Maheśvara,? within a deep Chinese backstory while simultaneously tracking its specific method of divination across the Silk Road to ancient India.
MoreLong description:
What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist ?Divination of Maheśvara? within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods
1 Meta
-Divination
2 Gambling with the Gods
3 Dice Gaming and Dice Divination
4 A Relational Network of Gods, Dice, Books, Divination Users, and Mantic Figures
5 Outline of the Work
1 The Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara
1 The Manuscript
2 Introducing the Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara
3 The Gods and Spirits in the Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara
4 Translation and Transcription of the Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara
2 The Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination
1 Material Culture and Ritual Process in Chinese Numerical Trigram Texts
2 Numerical Trigrams in the Stalk Divination and the Baoshan Divination Record
3 The Empowered Draughtsmen Divination Method and the Sutra on the Divination of Good and Bad Karmic Retribution
4 A Case Study in Transmission: The Tricks of Jing, the Duke of Zhou Divination Method, and the Guan Gongming Divination Method
5 Poetry, Talismans, and Divination
3 The Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara and Indic Dice Divination
1 The Divination of Mahe&&&x015B;vara and Two Other Tenth
-Century Dunhuang Dice Divination Codices
2 Ninth
-Century Tibetan Dice Divination Texts from Dunhuang, Turfan, and Maz&&&x0101;r T&&&x0101;gh
3 Sanskrit Dice Divination Texts from Kucha
4 The Archeology and Mythology of P&&&x0101;&&&x015B;aka Dice
Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind
Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams
Bibliography
Index
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