I am not sure whether such ideas are connected with Buddhism, or whether they only form a part of that old geomantic philosophy which has so greatly influenced China, Korea and Japan through centuries.
We find geomantic survivals of many kinds in many places.
I have only seen the mode of performing geomantic experiments upon paper.
There are several treatises on Geomancy by Eastern writers: but I have not met with any of these; nor have I seen a geomantic tablet.
The only possible remedy in such a case is to employ a hsien-shêng to study thegeomantic conditions of the locality and advise as to what can be done to improve them.
So they brought them and she took the pen and struck a geomantic scheme which she considered awhile; and then cried, "Thou hast spoken sooth, Allah will grant thee speedy reunion with her; so be not troubled.
Then my grandmother died and I took a geomantic tablet, being minded and determined to know the future, and I said to myself, 'Let me see who will wed me!
FN#299] I have noticed the geomantic process in my "History of Sindh" (chaps.
A complicated system of geomantic superstition, by which the good luck of sites and buildings is determined.
On the contrary a city wall is always found to have certain deliberate curves and irregularities which are designed for geomantic purposes.
The following scheme of a geomantic operation will show the application of the above rules.
In proof of his proficiency he produced a little box which he carried about him for the purpose of his geomantic operations and asked anyone who was willing to stand forth, that he might hear his whole life, past, present and future.
Whilst the geomantic art is a recognized one and is believed in by the whole of the nation, the professors of it are not held in the highest esteem by the community at large.
There are several things that according to geomantic laws are essential to the making up of a good grave or Fung-Shuy.
Moreover, before she died, my father said to her, 'Draw me a geomantic figure and see the issue of my affair and what will befall me.
Then my grandmother died and I took a geomantic tablet, being minded to now who I should marry, and drawing a figure, found that none should be my husband save one called Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat, the Trusty and Well-beloved.
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