Divining with Achi and T�ar�a : comparative remarks on Tibetan dice and m�al�a divination : tools, poetry, structures, and ritual dimensions / translated and introduced by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch ; with contributions by Solvej Hyveled Nielsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interviews -- Translation of the Achi mo -- M�al�a divination.

"Divining with Achi and T�ar�a is a book on Tibetan methods of prognostics with dice and prayer beads (m�al�a). Jan-Ulrich Sobisch offers a thorough discussion of Chinese, Indian, Turkic, and Tibetan traditions of divination, its techniques, rituals, tools, and poetic language. Interviews with Tibetan masters of divination introduce the main part with a translation of a dice divination manual of the deity Achi that is still part of a living tradition. Solvej Nielsen contributes further interviews, a m�al�a divination of T�ar�a and its oral tradition, and very useful glossaries of the terminology of Tibetan divination and fortune telling. Appendices provide lists of deities and spirits and of numerous identified ritual remedies and supports that are an essential element of a still vibrant Tibetan culture"-- Provided by publisher.

English and Tibetan.