Divination in Exile Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition

Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Introduction Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chapter 1 The Study of Tibetan Divination
	1 Introduction
	2 The Study of Tibetan Divination in the West
	3 Divination in European and American Scholarship
	4 Divination Eliminates Anxiety and Facilitates Decision Making
	5 Divination, Dialogue, and Rationality
Chapter 2 Tibetan Divination and the Bon Tradition
	1 A Brief Introduction to Tibetan Divination
	2 Remarks on Tibetan Buddhist Historiography and the Origins of Divination
	3 General Remarks on the Bon Religion
	4 Bonpos in the Contemporary Diaspora Community
	5 Two Classifications of Bon Religious Teachings: the sGo bzhi mdzod lnga and Theg pa rim pa dgu
	6 The Classification of Divination and Its Origins in the Bon Tradition: Excerpts from the gZi brjid
	7 Divination Manuscripts in the Bon Canon
Chapter 3 lDe’u ’phrul Divination
	1 Introduction
	2 lDe’u ’phrul Divination
	3 lDe’u ’phrul Origin Narratives
	4 Location
	5 Outline of the lde’u ’phrul Rite
	6 lDe’u ’phrul Prognostics: Major and Minor Results
	7 The Interpretation of Prognostics
Chapter 4 The Divination of sMra ba’i seng ge
	1 Introduction to the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba’i me long
	2 Transliteration Guidelines
	3 Translation of MS
Conclusion An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tibetan Divination?
Appendix 1 The Divination Gods: Excerpts from the MSAP
Appendix 2 Facsimiles of MSED
Bibliography
Index