Dice and Gods on the Silk Road : Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

Dice and Gods on the Silk Road Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

"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 go...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dotson, Brandon (-)
Other Authors: Cook, Constance A., Lu, Zhao
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : BRILL 2021.
Series:Prognostication in History
Subjects:
Divination > China.
Dice > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Divination > Tibet Region.
Divination > India.
Divination > Silk Road.
Faith and reason > Buddhism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009778225506719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods
  • 1. The Divination of Maheśvara
  • 2. The Divination of Maheśvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination
  • 3. The Divination of Maheśvara and Indic Dice Divination
  • Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind
  • Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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