Divination in Exile

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition

von Alexander Kingsbury Smith

196 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 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 Drawing from multi-site ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Himachal Pradesh and the translation of previously unpublished Tibetan language materials, Divination in Exile offers a valuable, social scientific contribution to our understanding of the perception and usage of ritual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.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Weitere Religionen und Glaubensrichtungen
• ISBN: 9789004438194
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2020
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill