Divining with Achi and Tara
Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and Mala Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimensions
Published on 19. September 2019
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-90-04-40195-2 (ISBN)
Description
Divining with Achi and Tara is a book on Tibetan methods of prognostics with dice and prayer beads (mala). 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 mala divination of Tara 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40195-2 (9789004401952)
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Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, formerly professor for Tibetan Studies at Copenhagen University, now researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum, is best known for his work on Tibetan vow theories, Tibetan tantric transmissions, and his exploration of the dGongs gcig teachings of the Drikung Kagyue tradition.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
?1?Dice for Divination-One of Many Tools of Randomization
?2?Poetry in the Prophecy
?3?Chinese Buddhist Divination Poetry
?4?Poetry in the Turkic Irk Bitig
?5?Poetry in Turfan Fragments
?6?Brief Poetical Elements in the Sanskrit Pasakakevali
?7?Poetry in a Tibetan Dunhuang Divination Manual
?8?Poetry in Mipham's A ra pa tsa na
?9?Structure and Nucleus of the Achi Mo
?10?Poetry in the Achi Mo
?11?More on the Divinations' General Prognoses
?12?The Detailed Prognoses and Their Categories
?13?Ritual Remedies and Supports
?14?Remedies in the Book of Consecration
?15?Remedies in Tibetan Dunhuang Texts
?16?Remedies in the Pasakakevali
?17?Remedies in Later Tibetan Mo Texts
?18?Ritual Proficiency
2 Interviews
?1?Interview with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche
?2?Interview with Lho Ontul Rinpoche
3 Translation of the Achi Mo
?1?The Sadhana
?2?Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Achi
4 Mala Divination
?1?Phreng Mo: A Popular Tibetan Way of Divining with a Mala
?2?Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Tara
?3?Interviews with Khenchen Nyima Rinpoche and Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche
?4?Explanations from Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche
?5?Explanations from Dorzin Konchog Dhondrup Rinpoche
?6?Some Variations and Similarities
?7?Special Terminology of Tibetan Divination
?8?Terminology of Fortune and Misfortune in Tibetan Buddhist Mo Divination
Appendix 1: Glossary of Deities and Spirits
Appendix 2: Alphabetical List of Ritual Remedies and Supports
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
?1?Dice for Divination-One of Many Tools of Randomization
?2?Poetry in the Prophecy
?3?Chinese Buddhist Divination Poetry
?4?Poetry in the Turkic Irk Bitig
?5?Poetry in Turfan Fragments
?6?Brief Poetical Elements in the Sanskrit Pasakakevali
?7?Poetry in a Tibetan Dunhuang Divination Manual
?8?Poetry in Mipham's A ra pa tsa na
?9?Structure and Nucleus of the Achi Mo
?10?Poetry in the Achi Mo
?11?More on the Divinations' General Prognoses
?12?The Detailed Prognoses and Their Categories
?13?Ritual Remedies and Supports
?14?Remedies in the Book of Consecration
?15?Remedies in Tibetan Dunhuang Texts
?16?Remedies in the Pasakakevali
?17?Remedies in Later Tibetan Mo Texts
?18?Ritual Proficiency
2 Interviews
?1?Interview with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche
?2?Interview with Lho Ontul Rinpoche
3 Translation of the Achi Mo
?1?The Sadhana
?2?Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Achi
4 Mala Divination
?1?Phreng Mo: A Popular Tibetan Way of Divining with a Mala
?2?Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Tara
?3?Interviews with Khenchen Nyima Rinpoche and Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche
?4?Explanations from Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche
?5?Explanations from Dorzin Konchog Dhondrup Rinpoche
?6?Some Variations and Similarities
?7?Special Terminology of Tibetan Divination
?8?Terminology of Fortune and Misfortune in Tibetan Buddhist Mo Divination
Appendix 1: Glossary of Deities and Spirits
Appendix 2: Alphabetical List of Ritual Remedies and Supports
Bibliography
Index