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Title Divining with Achi and Tārā : comparative remarks on Tibetan dice and mālā divination : tools, poetry, structures, and ritual dimensions / translated and introduced by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch ; with contributions by Solvej Hyveled Nielsen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages)
Series Prognostication in history, 2589-4404 ; volume 1
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Text in English and Tibetan
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2019)
Subject Divination -- Tibet Region
Fortune-telling by dice -- Tibet Region
A-phyi Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma (Buddhist deity)
A-phyi Chos-kyi-sgrol-ma (Buddhist deity)
Divination.
Fortune-telling by dice.
Tibet Region.
Form Electronic book
Author Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, translator, editor.
Hyveled Nielsen, Solvej, 1987- contributor.
LC no. 2019025578
ISBN 9004402624
9789004402621