Glimpses of Tibetan divination : : past and present / / edited by Petra Maurer, Donatella Rossi, Rolf Scheuermann.
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...
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| Superior document: | Prognostication in History; volume2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, [2020] |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Prognostication in History;
volume2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Background History of the Volume
- On the Contributions Contained in This Volume
- Notes on Contributors
- A Case of Prophecy in Post-imperial Tibet / Per Kværne
- Three Dice, Four Faces, and Sixty-Four Combinations: Early Tibetan Dice Divination by the Numbers / Brandon Dotson
- A Preliminary Analysis of Old Tibetan Dice Divination Texts / Ai Nishida
- Divinations Padampa Did or Did Not Do, or Did or Did Not Write / Dan Martin
- Landscaping Time, Timing Landscapes: The Role of Time in the sa dpyad Tradition / Petra Maurer
- Signs and Portents in Nature and in Dreams: What They Mean and What Can Be Done about Them / Charles Ramble
- Identifying the Magical Displays of the Lords of the World: The Oneiromancy of the gSal byed byang bu / Donatella Rossi
- Vibhūticandra’s Svapnohana and the Examination of Dreams / Rolf Scheuermann
- Prognosis, Prophylaxis, and Trumps: Comparative Remarks on Several Common Forms of Tibetan Cleromancy / Alexander K. Smith
- The Role of Lamyn Gegeen Blo bzang bstan ’dzin rgyal mtshan in the Dissemination of Tibetan Astrology, Divination and Prognostication in Mongolia / Agata Bareja-Starzyńska
- Back Matter
- Index.