Jade Chest of Treasure

About the Book

This book is an English translation of the ancient Mongolian prediction manual called Jade Chest of Treasure (Erdeniyn Has Haircag). The book has been used in the herdsmen household on the Mongolian grassland spreading over Northeast Asia. The manual covers astrology, numerology, omenology and divina- tion as used by herdsmen of the steppes. The original was in four books which are now translated into a single volume with some omission.

About the Author

Sheng Bau was born in eastern Inner Mongolia in 1959. He received an MSc and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 1988 and in 1991 respectively. He works as a professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.