Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings : Illuminated Manuscripts from the White Beryl of Sangs-Rgyas RGya-Mtsho

Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings : Illuminated Manuscripts from the White Beryl of Sangs-Rgyas RGya-Mtsho

by Gyurme Dorje

First published 2008 · 432 pages

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A study based on a pair of 18th-century Tibetan manuscripts illustrating the practice of elemental divination as described in in Sanggye Gyatso's The white beryl. Includes an English translation of Lo-chen Dharmasri's Moonbeams, a 17th-century verse treatise on Tibetan astrology.

  • Themes, motives
  • Tibetan Astrology
  • Divination
  • Illustrations
  • Criticism and interpretation

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