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Divining with Achi and Tārā
Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and Mālā Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimensions
Inbunden, 2019
1892 kr
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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 traditions of divination, its techniques, rituals, tools, and poetic language. Interviews with Tibetan …
Glimpses of Tibetan Divination
Past and Present
Av Petra Maurer
Inbunden, 2019
1775 kr
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Glimpses of Tibetan Divination: Past and Present is the first book of its kind, in that it contains articles by a group of eminent scholars who approach the subject matter by investigating it through various facets and salient historical figures.Over the centuries, Tibetans developed many practices …
Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination
Inbunden, 2020
2072 kr
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The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate …
Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future
Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period
Inbunden, 2021
2572 kr
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In Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum collect ten studies based on primary sources ranging from Qumran to the modern period and covering Europe and the …
End(s) of Time(s)
Apocalypticism, Messianism, and Utopianism through the Ages
Inbunden, 2021
2218 kr
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In times of crises, be it about climate change, the pandemic corona virus, or democratic struggles, there is an unwaning interest worldwide in the end of times and related themes such as apocalypticism, messianism, and utopianism. This concerns scholarship and society alike, and is by no means …
Dice and Gods on the Silk Road
Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context
Av Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1959 kr
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What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at …
Other Yijing
The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life
Av Tze-ki Hon
Inbunden, 2021
1877 kr
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In imperial China, the Yijing (Book of Changes) was not just read as a Confucian classic for moral cultivation, but also put into practice to solve problems of everyday life. To explain why the Yijing was so widely used in China, this volume examines its multiple textual layers, its divinatory …
Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
Inbunden, 2022
2540 kr
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The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed …
Dreams, Nature, and Practices as Signs of the Future in the Middle Ages
Av Klaus Herbers, Hans-Christian Lehner
Inbunden, 2022
1827 kr
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A great number of historical examples show how desperate people sought to obtain a glimpse of the future or explain certain incidents retrospectively through signs that had occurred in advance. In that sense, signs are always considered a portent of future events. In different societies, and at …
Communicating with the Gods
Spirit-Writing in Chinese History and Society
Av Matthias Schumann, Elena Valussi
Inbunden, 2023
2818 kr
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Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious …
Technicians and Artisans of Heaven-and-Earth
Imperial Memories of Diviners, Physicians, and Craftsmen from Mid-Medieval China
Inbunden, 2025
2257 kr
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Technicians and Artisans and Heaven-and-Earth reconstructs memories of significant but often overlooked figures from a remarkably diverse yet understudied period of Chinese history. The book includes translations of three biographical collections from the official dynastic histories of the Northern …
