Divination in Exile
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9789004438194
Subjects: Buddhism
Description: "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 Drawing from multi-site ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Himachal Pradesh and the translation of previously unpublished Tibetan language materials, Divination in Exile offers a valuable, social scientific contribution to our understanding of the perception and usage of ritual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"--