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| 100 | 1 | _aDotson, Brandon. | |
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_aDice and Gods on the Silk Road : _bChinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2021. |
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| 300 | _a1 online resource (353 pages) | ||
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_aPrognostication in History Series ; _vv.7 |
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| 505 | 0 | _aIntro -- 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. | |
| 520 | _aThis 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. | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
| 655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aCook, Constance A. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aLu, Zhao. | |
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_iPrint version: _aDotson, Brandon _tDice and Gods on the Silk Road _dBoston : BRILL,c2021 _z9789004461208 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aPrognostication in History Series | |
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