Text

Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

---

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.See Less

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Prognostication in History, Volume: 7

Call Number

-

Publisher

Brill : https://brill.com/., 19 Jul 2021

Collation

oer.unej.ac.id

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-90-04-46437-7

Classification

NONE

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Silk Road

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu

Other Information

Cataloger

-

Source

https://brill.com/display/title/59960

Validator

Suwardi

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

-

Journal Volume

Volume: 7

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment