Tibetan Go

 Fonte: BabelStone

When discussing the French translations of the Tibetan astrological pebble symbols recently, an interesting question was asked : what sort of "pebble" do these symbols represent ? Well, the Tibetan word rdel རྡེལ, although customarily translated into English as "pebble", is a general word for any small, hard, roundish object, including both natural stones and human artifacts. My theory is that the black and white pebbles used in divination are the same as the small, round black and white pieces used to play the classic board game of Go (go 碁 in Japanese or wéi qí 圍棋 in Chinese).

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