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ISBN13:9789004407374
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Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:218 pages
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Language:English
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Glimpses of Tibetan Divination

Past and Present
 
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Glimpses of Tibetan Divination, Past and Present is the first book of its kind, in that it contains articles by a group of eminent scholars who approach the subject-matter by investigating it through various facets and salient historical figures.

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Glimpses of Tibetan Divination: Past and Present is the first book of its kind, in that it contains articles by a group of eminent scholars who approach the subject matter by investigating it through various facets and salient historical figures.

Over the centuries, Tibetans developed many practices of prognostication and adapted many others from neighboring cultures and religions. In this way, Tibetan divination evolved into a vast field of ritual expertise that has been largely neglected in Tibetan Studies.

The Tibetan repertoire of divinatory techniques is rich and immensely varied. Accordingly, the specimen of practices discussed in this volume?many of which remain in use today?merely serve as examples that offer glimpses of divination in Tibet.



Contributors are Per Kv?rne, Brandon Dotson, Ai Nishida, Dan Martin, Petra Maurer, Charles Ramble, Donatella Rossi, Rolf Scheuermann, Alexander Smith, and Agata Bareja-Starzynska.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Background History of the Volume
On the Contributions Contained in This Volume
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors


1 A Case of Prophecy in Post
-imperial Tibet

Per Kv&&&x00E6;rne


2 Three Dice, Four Faces, and Sixty
-Four Combinations: Early Tibetan Dice Divination by the Numbers

Brandon Dotson


3 A Preliminary Analysis of Old Tibetan Dice Divination Texts
Ai Nishida


4 Divinations Padampa Did or Did Not Do, or Did or Did Not Write
Dan Martin


5 Landscaping Time, Timing Landscapes: The Role of Time in the sa dpyad Tradition
Petra Maurer


6 Signs and Portents in Nature and in Dreams: What They Mean and What Can Be Done about Them
Charles Ramble


7 Identifying the Magical Displays of the Lords of the World: The Oneiromancy of the gSal byed byang bu
Donatella Rossi


8 Vibh&&&x016B;ticandra&&&x2019;s Svapnohana and the Examination of Dreams
Rolf Scheuermann


9 Prognosis, Prophylaxis, and Trumps: Comparative Remarks on Several Common Forms of Tibetan Cleromancy
Alexander Smith


10 The Role of Lamyn Gegeen Blo bzang bstan &&&x2019;dzin rgyal mtshan in the Dissemination of Tibetan Astrology, Divination and Prognostication in Mongolia
Agata Bareja
-Starzynska



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