Preface and Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction: Playing Dice with the Gods 1 Meta-Divination 2 Gambling with the Gods 3 Dice Gaming and Dice Divination 4 A Relational Network of Gods, Dice, Books, Divination Users, and Mantic Figures 5 Outline of the Work 1 The Divination of Mahesvara 1 The Manuscript 2 Introducing the Divination of Mahesvara 3 The Gods and Spirits in the Divination of Mahesvara 4 Translation and Transcription of the Divination of Mahesvara 2 The Divination of Mahesvara and Chinese Numerical Trigram Divination 1 Material Culture and Ritual Process in Chinese Numerical Trigram Texts 2 Numerical Trigrams in the Stalk Divination and the Baoshan Divination Record 3 The Empowered Draughtsmen Divination Method and the Sutra on the Divination of Good and Bad Karmic Retribution 4 A Case Study in Transmission: The Tricks of Jing , the Duke of Zhou Divination Method , and the Guan Gongming Divination Method 5 Poetry, Talismans, and Divination 3 The Divination of Mahesvara and Indic Dice Divination 1 The Divination of Mahesvara and Two Other Tenth-Century Dunhuang Dice Divination Codices 2 Ninth-Century Tibetan Dice Divination Texts from Dunhuang, Turfan, and Mazar Tagh 3 Sanskrit Dice Divination Texts from Kucha 4 The Archeology and Mythology of Pasaka Dice Conclusions: Inheriting the Wind Appendix: Divining with Sixteen Numerical Trigrams Bibliography Index.