Divination in Exile: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Chapter 1 The Study of Tibetan Divination -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Study of Tibetan Divination in the West -- 3 Divination in European and American Scholarship -- 4 Divination Eliminates A...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004438194 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Chapter 1 The Study of Tibetan Divination -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Study of Tibetan Divination in the West -- 3 Divination in European and American Scholarship -- 4 Divination Eliminates Anxiety and Facilitates Decision Making -- 5 Divination, Dialogue, and Rationality -- Chapter 2 Tibetan Divination and the Bon Tradition -- 1 A Brief Introduction to Tibetan Divination -- 2 Remarks on Tibetan Buddhist Historiography and the Origins of Divination -- 3 General Remarks on the Bon Religion -- 4 Bonpos in the Contemporary Diaspora Community -- 5 Two Classifications of Bon Religious Teachings: the sGo bzhi mdzod lnga and Theg pa rim pa dgu -- 6 The Classification of Divination and Its Origins in the Bon Tradition: Excerpts from the gZi brjid -- 7 Divination Manuscripts in the Bon Canon -- Chapter 3 lDe'u 'phrul Divination -- 1 Introduction -- 2 lDe'u 'phrul Divination -- 3 lDe'u 'phrul Origin Narratives -- 4 Location -- 5 Outline of the lde'u 'phrul Rite -- 6 lDe'u 'phrul Prognostics: Major and Minor Results -- 7 The Interpretation of Prognostics -- Chapter 4 The Divination of sMra ba'i seng ge -- 1 Introduction to the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba'i me long -- 2 Transliteration Guidelines -- 3 Translation of MS -- Conclusion An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tibetan Divination? -- Appendix 1 The Divination Gods: Excerpts from the MSAP -- Appendix 2 Facsimiles of MSED -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 900444078X |