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Divining with Achi and TÄrÄ
Comparative Remarks on Tibetan Dice and MÄlÄ Divination: Tools, Poetry, Structures, and Ritual Dimensions
Series: - Prognostication in History, Volume: 1
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Divining with Achi and TÄrÄ is a book on Tibetan methods of prognostics with dice and prayer beads (mÄlÄ). 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 mÄlÄ divination of TÄrÄ 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.
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.
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations
1 Introduction â1âDice for DivinationâOne of Many Tools of Randomization â2âPoetry in the Prophecy â3âChinese Buddhist Divination Poetry â4âPoetry in the Turkic Irk Bitig â5âPoetry in Turfan Fragments â6âBrief Poetical Elements in the Sanskrit PÄÅakakevalÄ« â7âPoetry in a Tibetan Dunhuang Divination Manual â8âPoetry in Miphamâs A ra pa tsa na â9âStructure and Nucleus of the Achi Mo â10âPoetry in the Achi Mo â11âMore on the Divinationsâ General Prognoses â12âThe Detailed Prognoses and Their Categories â13âRitual Remedies and Supports â14âRemedies in the Book of Consecration â15âRemedies in Tibetan Dunhuang Texts â16âRemedies in the PÄÅakakevalÄ« â17âRemedies in Later Tibetan Mo Texts â18âRitual Proficiency
2 Interviews â1âInterview with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche â2âInterview with Lho Ontul Rinpoche
3 Translation of the Achi Mo â1âThe SÄdhana â2âTibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Achi
4 MÄlÄ Divination â1âPhreng Mo: A Popular Tibetan Way of Divining with a MÄlÄ â2âTibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of TÄrÄ â3âInterviews with Khenchen Nyima Rinpoche and Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche â4âExplanations from Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche â5âExplanations from Dorzin Konchog Dhondrup Rinpoche â6âSome Variations and Similarities â7âSpecial Terminology of Tibetan Divination â8âTerminology 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
1 Introduction â1âDice for DivinationâOne of Many Tools of Randomization â2âPoetry in the Prophecy â3âChinese Buddhist Divination Poetry â4âPoetry in the Turkic Irk Bitig â5âPoetry in Turfan Fragments â6âBrief Poetical Elements in the Sanskrit PÄÅakakevalÄ« â7âPoetry in a Tibetan Dunhuang Divination Manual â8âPoetry in Miphamâs A ra pa tsa na â9âStructure and Nucleus of the Achi Mo â10âPoetry in the Achi Mo â11âMore on the Divinationsâ General Prognoses â12âThe Detailed Prognoses and Their Categories â13âRitual Remedies and Supports â14âRemedies in the Book of Consecration â15âRemedies in Tibetan Dunhuang Texts â16âRemedies in the PÄÅakakevalÄ« â17âRemedies in Later Tibetan Mo Texts â18âRitual Proficiency
2 Interviews â1âInterview with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche â2âInterview with Lho Ontul Rinpoche
3 Translation of the Achi Mo â1âThe SÄdhana â2âTibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Achi
4 MÄlÄ Divination â1âPhreng Mo: A Popular Tibetan Way of Divining with a MÄlÄ â2âTibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of TÄrÄ â3âInterviews with Khenchen Nyima Rinpoche and Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche â4âExplanations from Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche â5âExplanations from Dorzin Konchog Dhondrup Rinpoche â6âSome Variations and Similarities â7âSpecial Terminology of Tibetan Divination â8âTerminology 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
All interested in divination techniques in general, and in particular in Tibetan prognostics (mo), poetry, and the ritual dimensions of divination and fortune.