The Game of Knowledge: Playing at Spiritual Liberation in 18th- and 19th-Century Western India

A rigorous examination of over 150 unpublished Gyān caupaṛ game charts from Jain and Vaishnava communities. Schmidt-Madsen argues that the Indian games evolved from esoteric tantric subtle-body drawings and identifies the 12th-century Chinese Xuanfo tu as a likely distant influence.