Divination and oracles

Divining with Achi and Tārā

comparative remarks on Tibetan dice and mālā divination : tools, poetry, structures, and ritual dimensions

by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch & Solvej Hyveled Nielsen

First published:
21st century
Languages: English, Tibetan

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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 — -

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
comparative remarks on Tibetan dice and mālā divination : tools, poetry, structures, and ritual dimensions Harvard LibraryCloud bibliographic record xii, 280 pages ; 25 cm.	2019	Brill	English, Tibetan	9789004401952 9789004402621 9004401954	Catalog record	Harvard LibraryCloud (opens in a new tab)