Index
A.H. Francke
12, 14–15, 49
Aeschylus
137
Ajitanātha
75
Alexander K. Smith
81
Amdo
208, 210
apparent reality (saṃvṛtisatya)
164
art of dotting
90, 91
Artemidorus
138n8
Ashurbanipal
137
astragalos
19–20, 23, 24
asura
124
Atiśa
80–81, 84–85, 201n18
auspicious omens
166, 168–173
’bras rtsis
199
’Bras rtsis legs bshad kun ’dus
204, 206
’Bras rtsis rin chen ’phreng ba
207
’Bras spungs monastery
202
’Bri gung ’Jig rten mgon po
165
’byung po
148, 150
balance of fortune
35–40
Bar g.yen gTod po dgu
153
bCom ldan Rig pa’i ral gri
166
bcos thabs
209
bdud
122, 133, 147, 150, 151, 152, 187
Beijing
32, 202, 203
bKa’ mdzod
91
bKa’ gdams glegs bam
201
bKra shis lhun po monastery
201n19, 202
Bla bo bla sras
65
Blo bzang bstan ’dzin rgyal mtshan
200–201
Blo bzang don grub
200
(Ngag dbang) Blo bzang rgya mtsho
205
Bogd Khan, Khalkha Jetsundampa VIII
208
Bon
2–7, 7–9, 62–64, 120, 127n8, 134
Bonpo
139, 140, 141, 148, 149
Bower Manuscript
12, 24, 29–31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 41, 42, 44
Bra bo sGom nyag
152n35
Brahmans
126
breech birth
126
bsang mchod
181
bsdus yig
141
bsod nams
191
bstan rtsis
205
bsTan ’gyur
25, 125, 161, 164
btsan
123, 128, 131, 147, 150, 151, 152, 187
Bu ston rin chen grub
205
Buddha
9, 162–163, 166, 204
Bya khyung monastery
202
byin rlabs
191
Calliope
138
Caraka Saṃhitā
168
Catherine the Second
77
Central Asia
137
charter myth
119
chi bslu dpyad
154
Chinggis Khan
200, 201, 204
Chos ’byor
203
Chos kyi rdo rje
201
Chos rje blo bzang yar ’phel
201
Chrysippus
139
chu tshod
99, 102, 103
Churchillian drift
85
cleromancy
163, 183
colors
79, 124, 141, 172–173
Confucius
85
Dag yig za ma tog
202
ḍākinīs
141
Dalai Lama V
202, 205
Dalai Lama VII
125
Daldis
138n8
dam sri
148, 150, 152
Dampa Sangyé
78
dar gud
101
dBang phyug rDo rje, Karmapa IX
174
dBen sa monastery
200
dBen sa sprul sku mKhas grub III, Blo bzang bstan ’dzin rgya mtsho
201
dbu med
141, 191
dbugs
103
dependent arising (pratītyasamūtpāda)
163
dGa’ ldan monastery
202
dGe ’dun rgya mtsho, Dalai Lama I
205
dgu mig
96
dharma guardian (dharmapāla)
150, 162
Dionysus
138
divination
118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 129, 130, 131, 162–163, 181–182, 189
arrow divination
77
dice
118
five finger divination
77
knotted strings
118
lot (chouqian 抽籖)
22, 40
mo (divination)
94, 95, 182
rosary
77, 79–81, 84, 177
sixty pebble divination
85
sticks
118
stones, pebbles
77, 85, 118
dkar rtsis
198
dKor skyong rGyal po
148, 150
dmu
146, 150, 151, 152, 185
dPa’ bo gtsug lag phreng ba
205
dPag bsam ljon shing
98, 102n39, 105, 109
dPal ldan dmag zor rgyal mo
184
dPal ldan lha mo
23, 189
Dran pa Nam mkha’
3–10
dregs pa bco brgyad
151
dregs pa sde brgyad
150, 151
dri
151
Druglha (’Brug lha)
82
Duchy of Württemberg
77
Dunhuang
11, 24, 29, 32, 35, 44, 49, 51, 65
dur mig
96, 130
dus
95, 96, 97, 98, 99
’Dus srong
65
dus tshod
95, 98, 99
Empress Xiaozhuang
203
Eternal Bon (g.yung drung bon)
3
Examination of dreams (rmi lam brtag pa)
123, 163, 165, 168
Fālnamāh
18, 22, 25, 26, 27, 31, 36
Febris
155
Female divinities/ goddesses
11, 40
feng shui
90
Blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan, Panchen Lama I/IV
201, 202, 205
Fortune (phya)
11
fratricide
131
’go ba’i lha
121
’Gong po
130, 151
g.yang ’gugs, summoning good fortune
119
g.yang gzhi
119n1
g.yang
120, 146
g.Yar g.yen gNyen po bCu gsum
152
games
chess
18
nard
18
pachisi and caupur
18, 19, 41
geomancy
89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 106, 112
Gesar
78
Giuseppe Tucci
141
gNam phyi gung rgyal
119
gnam sgo
96, 109, 110, 111
gnod sbyin ’byung po
147, 150
gnod sbyin
151
gnyan
147, 150, 151, 152
Grags pa gling grags
3, 7, 9
grib
120, 122, 132
Grub rtsis sogs kyi lag len gsal bar bkod pa
204
gSal byed byang bu
136, 141, 142, 156
gser rtsis
199
gter ma
149, 152, 192
gTer ston Grub thob dNgos grub
149n21
gTsang
202
gza’ rdong
148, 150
gza’
151, 207
gzhi, ‘base’
36–39, 43, 119, 120, 132
gZhod ston dNgos grub Grags pa,
149n21
hermaphrodite
126
Hidden mahdī
9
Himachal Pradesh
184, 191, 193
Ikh Khüree
204
inauspicious omens
68–69, 166, 171–173
Irq Bitig
12, 24, 32, 35, 41, 42
’Jig rten mGon po
150
Jagaddeva
167–174, 177
Jan Assmann
76, 85
Jeremiah
1
Jesus
2
Joseph Smith
2
ju thig
119, 120, 132, 134, 182, 185
Kālacakra-tantra
199, 202, 205
Kamalaśīla
75
Kamalaśrī
75
Karuṇasiddhi
75
Kāśyapa
9
keg
94, 96
keg rtsis
95, 109
Khalkha
201, 202
Khalkha Zaya Pandita
201
Khalkha Zaya Pandita Luvsanprinlei (Blo bzang ’phrin las)
200
kham (trigram)
131
Khams ston Shes rab dpal
84
khar zurkhai
199
Khatan gol
202
khen (trigram)
110, 127
khon (trigram)
110, 127, 131
Khöndlön Tsökhür
200, 201
Khotan
Niya
15
Mazār Tāgh
11, 14, 35, 44
Khri srong lDe btsan (742–c. 800 CE)
3
Khrom rtsis
207
khyim zhag
99
Khyung po sPrul sku Blo ldan sNying po
141
Kitāb al-Bulhān
25, 32
Kitāb al-Fāl
18, 22, 25, 26
Klu ’bum chos kyi rgyal po ’Phrin las rgya mtsho
202
klu
147, 150, 151, 152
Kong rtse bla glud
130, 131, 133
Kong sprul blo gros mtha’ yas
91, 106
Kong tse ’Phrul gyi rgyal po
127
Kshatriyas
126
Kun dga’ byang chub zer ba
202
Kun tu bZang po
143, 146, 149
Lam lha
58
Lamyn Gegeen (Blo bzang bstan ’dzin rgyal mtshan)
198, 200–205, 207–210
Langkhor (Glang ’khor)
83
Legs tshogs lhun grub
200
lHa bla ma Ye shes ’od, king of Pu hrangs
6
lHa bu ru la skyes
66
lHa dByar mo thang
65
lha klu sde brgyad
151, 152
lHa Mu tsa myed(/med)
65
lHa myI mgon mched bun
66
lha srin sde brgyad
151, 152
lha
147, 150, 151, 152
Lhasa
202
lHe’u rje zin tags
65
li (trigram)
131
Lingqi jing
26, 33
Loyag Erkhe Tsökhür (Blo yag Er khe Tshos khur)
201
Lu gu gdong rtsis
207
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
155
Lunbum Nomun khan
202
lung bstan
73
lung ma bstan pa
73
ma mo
148, 150, 151, 152
Mahāmudrā
164, 174
Maitreya
9
Maitrīpāda
165, 167
makhbodyn zurkhai
199
Manasarovar
128
Manchu Emperor
202, 203
mandala
181
Maṇi Mantra
80
Mani
2
Mañjuśrī
26
Marcus Tullius Cicero
139
Maudgalyāyana
79
Māyādevī
163
mDo sde nyi ma’i snying po
206
medicine
84
Mephitis
155
Mi bskyod rdo rje, Karmapa VIII
205
Mi la ras pa
164
mi tshe
98
Michel Strickmann
12, 23, 25
Mkhan chen Chos rgyal
200
mKhas grub Nor bzang rgya mtsho
205
mnemohistory
85
mNga’ ris dKa’ chen Chos rje Blo bzang yar ’phel
201
mo, female
100, 102
mo rtsis
25, 31, 32, 36, 94, 95, 182
Mohammed
2, 7
Mount Kukkuṭapāda
9
Moxishouluo bu (Maheśvara’s Method of Divination)
24, 33, 34, 35, 36
mu khab
121
mu sman
61–62
Mu ye pra phud
119, 120, 134
na gso gto
154
nag rtsis
90, 91, 92, 93, 99, 113, 199
nakṣatra
103
Nam mkha’ bsod nams grags pa
201
Namkhai Norbu
82
ngar mi
131, 133
Niniveh
137
nirvāṇa
140
nyin zhag
99
’O [l]de gung rgyal
65, 119
O rgyan
141
Oneirocritica
138n8
Oneirocriticon of Achmet
138n8
Oneiromancy
163–164, 167, 176–177
Óneiros
138
orality
34–35, 43
Ordos
202
ornithomancy
118
Orpheus
138
Orphism
137
Otani 6004
51, 55
’Phan yul
202
’phreng mo
95
Padampa
74
Padampa Sangyé
75–76
Panchen Lama III
200
Pāśaka dice
11, 13–19, 21–22, 24–25, 41–44
Pāśakakevalī
12, 22, 24, 29, 30–31, 36, 41–42
Person of authority (tshad ma’i skyes bu)
162, 172
Peter Simon Pallas
78
pho, male
100, 102
Phug pa Lhun grub rgya mtsho
205
phya
119, 120, 134
Phyag chen rgyas pa nges don rgya mtsho
174–175, 177
Phywa gshen theg pa,
154
Phywa lcam lo ma
119
Phywa Yab lha bdal drug
119
Plato
137
pra ltas mo
154
preliminary practices of Mahāmudrā (phyag chen sngon ’gro)
174–175
preta
124
’Chi ba’i mtshan ma brtag pa
124
Mṛtyuvañcanopadeśa
125
Vāgīśvarakīrti
125
lTas brtag pa rgyas pa
125, 134
Nam mkha’i ’ja’ ltas brtag pa
125
Old Man of the Sky
127
Old Woman of the Earth
127
Paṇḍita Bikhyu Ta de ba
123
probability
35–39, 41, 43
prophecy
3–10, 161–162
prophet
1–2
pseudepigrapha
76
PT 1047
39
Punktierkunst
91
Pythagoras
137
Quran
7
rainbows
125
Ralph Waldo Emerson
85
Ramesside Dream Manual
137
Rang byung rdo rje, Karmapa III
205, 207
rang ngo shes
140
rDo rje sems dpa’ nam mkha’ che’i rgyud
149, 150n22
rDzogs chen
149
Rene Devisch
189
resistance
40
Revelation of Saint John
7
rgyal po
123, 127, 130, 147, 150, 151, 152
rgyu skar
99, 103
rgyu’i theg pa bzhi,
154
rGyud bzhi
123
rGyud rdo rje mkha’ ’gro
206
ritual system
181, 194
rMa lineage
83, 84
rMi ltas sna tshogs brtag thabs
122
rTsis ’go brgya pa
207
rTsis gzhung blang dor gsal ba’i ’od zer
204
rTsis gzhung mun sel sgron me
204
rTsis kun ’dus pa
207
rtsis mkhan
91
rtsis pa
92, 93, 95
rtsis
198, 203, 210
rtsub
96
rus chen
96, 102, 104–108
rus khams
90, 96, 102, 104–107, 110, 112
Rwa sgreng monastery
202
sa bdag
110–112, 147, 150, 151, 208
Sa dpyad nyung ngu rin chen kun ’dus
92
sa g.yen che ba bcu gcig
152
sa sgo
96, 109, 110, 111
Sa skya monastery
7
Saddharmapundarika
152
Sakya
120
Śākyaśrībhadra (11th–12th cent.)
165
saṃsāra
140
Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho
91, 93–94, 96, 101, 103–106, 108, 111, 206
Śāntideva
25, 26, 42, 176
Śārdula-karṇa-avadāna
206–207
Śāriputra
79
sde brgyad
152
sde brgyad dregs pa
150
sde brgyad dregs pa’i cho ’phrul
142
sDong po dgu ’dus
207
Se ra monastery
202
sGam po pa bSod nams rin chen
164
sGra tshad pa Rin chen rnam rgyal
123, 134
Sha kya’i btsun pa blo bzang ’phrin las kyi zab pa dang rgya che ba’i dam pa’i chos kyi thob yig gsal ba’i me long
200
shar zurkhai
199, 210
Shudras
126
Śikṣāsamuccaya
176–177
sKu ’bum monastery
202
sku bla
151
Sla bo sla sras
65
sMan ri Monastery
183, 193
sMan
61–63, 64
sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba’i me long
186
smrang
119, 127
sNang gshen Theg pa
153
snang mthong rtsis
154
sog mo
95
Sortes Sanctorum
23–24, 28
soul retrieval
130
spirit-mediumship
162–163
srid pa
119, 127n8, 128, 129, 132
Srid pa las kyi gting zlog gi rts rgyud kun gsal nyi zer sgron ma
152n35
Srid pa Sangs po
119
Srid pa’i gTo nag mgo gsum
127, 133
Srid pa’i lha mo
119
Srid rgyal dus drug mngon shes gsal ba’i me long
191
srin
122, 132, 133
Srong btsan sgam po
90
St. Petersburg
77
sTag gzigs
141
sTag la Me ’bar
151
sTag lung monastery
202
sTag rna’i rtogs pa brjod pa
206
sTag sna’i mdo
206
Stuttgart
77
Sum pa mkhan po Ye shes dpal ’byor
208, 209, 210
Sūrya-garbha
206
Svapnacintāmaṇi
167–174, 177
Svapnekṣā (rMi lam brtag pa)
165, 167–168
Svapnohana (rMi lam brtag pa)
161, 164–177
Tārā
80
Taxila
16–17
taxonomy
152, 162
Thánatos
138
Thang lha ya bzhur
65
The rang ’Gong po
148, 150
the(’u) rang
120, 132, 152
theb kyu, dough buttons
131
Three-Headed Man of the Black Rituals
127
thunder
125
Tingrian Couplets
83
topomancy
90
torma (gtor ma)
124, 131
trigram
127, 130, 131
tsagaan zurkhai
199
tshe
97, 98, 99, 112
tshes zhag
99
Tsi na’i sa dpyad gsar ’gyur lugs kyi sgo ’byed ’phrul gyi lde’u mig
91, 106
Turfan
11, 14, 35, 44
ultimate reality (paramārthasatya)
164
Vaiḍūrya dkar po
91, 93, 95–96, 98, 106, 109, 110, 111, 206, 208
Vibhūticandra
161, 164–166, 177
Victor Turner
183
Vikramaśīla monastery
75, 165
widowhood
131
world ages (yuga-s)
19, 30, 43
Xuan ze guang yu xia ji
202
Yang rtse klong chen
149
Yar lha sham pho
65
Ye shes rdo rje
205
yi dam
151
Yijing
22, 26, 27, 28
Ýpnos
138
Zanabazar, Khalkha Jetsundampa I
201, 203, 204
Zarathushtra
2
zasal
209
Zaya Pandita
200, 201, 202, 203
Zha lu lo tsā ba chos skyong bzang po
202
Zhancha shan’e yebao jing (Zhancha jing)
20–21, 27
Zhang zhung gi ju thig bsrus pa mo bya drug ’phrul gyi lde mig
185
Zhang zhung ju thig
119, 120, 132, 134
Zhijé Collection
75
Zhuang Zhou
136
zon (trigram)
130, 133
zurkhai
198, 209, 210
zurkhaich
199