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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Fortune-telling & divination > General
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 Mahesvara" 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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