Divining with Achi and Tārā

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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviations1 Introduction1 Dice for Divination—One of Many Tools of Randomization2 Poetry in the Prophecy3 Chinese Buddhist Divination Poetry4 Poetry in the Turkic Irk Bitig5 Poetry in Turfan Fragments6 Brief Poetical Elements in the Sanskrit Pāśakakevalī7 Poetry in a Tibetan Dunhuang Divination Manual8 Poetry in Mipham’s A ra pa tsa na9 Structure and Nucleus of the Achi Mo10 Poetry in the Achi Mo11 More on the Divinations’ General Prognoses12 The Detailed Prognoses and Their Categories13 Ritual Remedies and Supports14 Remedies in the Book of Consecration15 Remedies in Tibetan Dunhuang Texts16 Remedies in the Pāśakakevalī17 Remedies in Later Tibetan Mo Texts18 Ritual Proficiency2 Interviews1 Interview with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche2 Interview with Lho Ontul Rinpoche3 Translation of the Achi Mo1 The Sādhana2 Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Achi4 Mālā Divination1 Phreng Mo: A Popular Tibetan Way of Divining with a Mālā2 Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Tārā3 Interviews with Khenchen Nyima Rinpoche and Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche4 Explanations from Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche5 Explanations from Dorzin Konchog Dhondrup Rinpoche6 Some Variations and Similarities7 Special Terminology of Tibetan Divination8 Terminology of Fortune and Misfortune in Tibetan Buddhist Mo DivinationAppendix 1: Glossary of Deities and SpiritsAppendix 2: Alphabetical List of Ritual Remedies and SupportsBibliographyIndex