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Divining with Achi and Tārā
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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 tr...
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19 September 2019

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.
Price: $137.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Prognostication in History
Publication Date:
19 September 2019
ISBN: 9789004401952
Format: Hardcover
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 Kagyü tradition.