{"product_id":"divination-in-exile-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-ritual-prognostication-in-the-tibetan-bon-tradition-9789004438194","title":"Divination in Exile: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present. While Smith surveys a variety of ritual practices, the volume focuses on divination and its associated rites in the contemporary Tibetan Bon tradition. Drawing from multi-site ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Himachal Pradesh and the translation of previously unpublished Tibetan language materials, Divination in Exile offers a valuable, social scientific contribution to our understanding of the perception and usage of ritual manuscripts in contemporary Tibetan cultural milieus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables    Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives    1 The Study of Tibetan Divination   1 Introduction   2 The Study of Tibetan Divination in the West   3 Divination in European and American Scholarship   4 Divination Eliminates Anxiety and Facilitates Decision Making   5 Divination, Dialogue, and Rationality    2 Tibetan Divination and the Bon Tradition   1 A Brief Introduction to Tibetan Divination   2 Remarks on Tibetan Buddhist Historiography and the Origins of Divination   3 General Remarks on the Bon Religion   4 Bonpos in the Contemporary Diaspora Community   5 Two Classifications of Bon Religious Teachings: the sGo bzhi mdzod lnga and Theg pa rim pa dgu   6 The Classification of Divination and Its Origins in the Bon Tradition: Excerpts from the gZi brjid   7 Divination Manuscripts in the Bon Canon    3 lDe’u ‘phrul Divination   1 Introduction   2 lDe’u ‘phrul Divination   3 lDe’u ‘phrul Origin Narratives   4 Location   5 Outline of the lde’u ‘phrul Rite   6 lDe’u ‘phrul Prognostics: Major and Minor Results   7 The Interpretation of Prognostics    4 The Divination of sMra ba’i seng ge   1 Introduction to the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba’i me long   2 Transliteration Guidelines   3 Translation of MS    Conclusion: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tibetan Divination?    Appendix 1: The Divination Gods: Excerpts from the MSAP    Appendix 2: Facsimiles of sMra sing rdel mo gsal ba’i me long bzhugs so  Bibliography    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210807501143,"sku":"9789004438194","price":98.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/divination-in-exile-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-ritual-prognostication-in-the-tibetan-bon-tradition-9789004438194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}