LEADER 02840nam 22005893 450 001 9910794515103321 005 20231110234257.0 010 $a90-04-46437-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011984102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6681488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6681488 035 $a(OCoLC)1262675426 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011984102 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDice and Gods on the Silk Road $eChinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context 210 1$aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) 225 1 $aPrognostication in History 311 $a90-04-46120-5 327 $aIntroduction: Playing Dice with the Gods -- 1. The Divination of Mahes?vara -- 2. The Divination of Mahes?vara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination -- 3. The Divination of Mahes?vara and Indic Dice Divination -- Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind -- Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist "Divination of Mahes?vara" within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPrognostication in History 517 $aDice and Gods on the Silk Road 606 $aDivination$zChina 606 $aDice$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 606 $aDivination$zTibet Region 606 $aDivination$zIndia 606 $aDivination$zSilk Road 606 $aFaith and reason$xBuddhism 615 0$aDivination 615 0$aDice$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 615 0$aDivination 615 0$aDivination 615 0$aDivination 615 0$aFaith and reason$xBuddhism. 676 $a203/.20951 700 $aDotson$b Brandon$01492485 701 $aCook$b Constance A$01492486 701 $aLu$b Zhao$01492487 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794515103321 996 $aDice and Gods on the Silk Road$93715025 997 $aUNINA