Dice and Gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface and Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures and Tables -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Introduction. Playing Dice with the Gods -- ‎1. Meta-Divination -- ‎2. Gambling with the Gods -- ‎3. Dice Gaming and Dice Divination -- ‎4. A Relational Network of Gods, Dice, Books, Divination Users, and Mantic Figures -- ‎5. Outline of the Work -- ‎Chapter 1. The Divination of Maheśvara -- ‎1. The Manuscript -- ‎2. Introducing the Divination of Maheśvara -- ‎3. The Gods and Spirits in the Divination of Maheśvara -- ‎4. Translation and Transcription of the Divination of Maheśvara -- ‎Chapter 2. The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination -- ‎1. Material Culture and Ritual Process in Chinese Numerical Trigram Texts -- ‎2. Numerical Trigrams in the Stalk Divination and the Baoshan Divination Record -- ‎3. The Empowered Draughtsmen Divination Method and the Sutra on the Divination of Good and Bad Karmic Retribution -- ‎4. A Case Study in Transmission: The Tricks of Jing, the Duke of Zhou Divination Method, and the Guan Gongming Divination Method -- ‎5. Poetry, Talismans, and Divination -- ‎Chapter 3. The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination -- ‎1. The Divination of Maheśvara and Two Other Tenth-Century Dunhuang Dice Divination Codices -- ‎2. Ninth-Century Tibetan Dice Divination Texts from Dunhuang, Turfan, and Mazār Tāgh -- ‎3. Sanskrit Dice Divination Texts from Kucha -- ‎4. The Archeology and Mythology of Pāśaka Dice -- ‎Conclusions. Inheriting the Wind -- ‎Appendix. Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.

This interdisciplinary collaboration is the first in-depth study of Chinese Buddhist dice divination. It situates the tenth-century "Divination of Maheśvara," within a deep Chinese backstory while simultaneously tracking its specific method of divination across the Silk Road to ancient India.

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