Dice and Gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context / Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, Zhao Lu.
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TextSeries: Prognostication in History ; 7.Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9789004464377
- 9789004461208
- Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context
- 113 23
- Q172.5.C45
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Copyright Page / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Dedication / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Preface and Acknowledgements / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Abbreviations / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Introduction Playing Dice with the Gods / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Chapter 1 The Divination of Maheśvara / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Chapter 2 The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Chapter 3 The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Conclusions Inheriting the Wind / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Back Matter -- Appendix Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Bibliography / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu -- Index / Authors: Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu.
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 least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.
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