Divining with Achi and Tārā

Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and Mālā Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimensions
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40195-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Prognostication in History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nielsen, Solvej Hyveled

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.