Divination in exile : : interdisciplinary approaches to ritual prognostication in the Tibetan Bon tradition / / by Alexander Kingsbury Smith.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 47
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Alexander Kingsbury,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Divination in Exile , Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present. While Smith surveys a variety of ritual practices, the volume focuses on divination and its associated rites in t...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• 1 The Study of Tibetan Divination
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Study of Tibetan Divination in the West
• 3 Divination in European and American Scholarship
• 4 Divination Eliminates Anxiety and Facilitates Decision Making
• 5 Divination, Dialogue, and Rationality
• 2 Tibetan Divination and the Bon Tradition
• 1 A Brief Introduction to Tibetan Divination
• 2 Remarks on Tibetan Buddhist Historiography and the Origins of Divination
• 3 General Remarks on the Bon Religion
• 4 Bonpos in the Contemporary Diaspora Community
• 5 Two Classifications of Bon Religious Teachings: the sGo bzhi mdzod lnga and Theg pa rim pa dgu
• 6 The Classification of Divination and Its Origins in the Bon Tradition: Excerpts from the gZi brjid
• 7 Divination Manuscripts in the Bon Canon
• 3 lDe'u 'phrul Divination
• 1 Introduction
• 2 lDe'u 'phrul Divination
• 3 lDe'u 'phrul Origin Narratives
• 4 Location
• 5 Outline of the lde'u 'phrul Rite
• 6 lDe'u 'phrul Prognostics: Major and Minor Results
• 7 The Interpretation of Prognostics
• 4 The Divination of sMra ba'i seng ge
• 1 Introduction to the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba'i me long
• 2 Transliteration Guidelines
• 3 Translation of MS
• Conclusion: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tibetan Divination?
• Appendix 1: The Divination Gods: Excerpts from the MSAP
• Appendix 2: Facsimiles of sMra sing rdel mo gsal ba'i me long bzhugs so
• Bibliography
• Index.