Dice and Gods on the Silk Road : : Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context.
"What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist "Divination of Maheśvara" within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers go...
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| Superior document: | Prognostication in History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Prognostication in History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods
- 1. The Divination of Maheśvara
- 2. The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination
- 3. The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination
- Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind
- Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams
- Bibliography
- Index.