Table of Contents for Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy
The Written Oracle in East Asia
Michel Strickmann, Edited by Bernard Faure
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Chinese Poetry and Prophecy

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Forward

Introduction

1.Ritual and Randomization

2.Chinese Oracles In Partibus

3.Termina Technica

4.Modern Studies, Editions, and Translations

5.New Evidence: A Clutch of Taoist Oracles

6.New Evidence: The Oldest Buddhist Sequence

7.La Trahison Des Cléromanes: Divination in a Buddhist Setting

8.Writing and Chinese Ritual

9.Visions of Diffusion: Central Asia and the West

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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