Dreaming and self-cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE

"Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing, diet, senses, desires, sexuality, even th...

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Main Author: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts London Harvard University Asia Center 2023
In: Monograph series / Harvard-Yenching Institute (138)
Year: 2023
Series/Journal:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 138
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Self-control / Self-control / Dream / History 300 BC-800
Further subjects:B Asian History
B Asiatische Geschichte
B Taoism
B Ostasiatische und indische Philosophie
B Dream interpretation (China) History To 1500
B Taoism (China) Discipline History To 1500
B Buddhism (China) Discipline History To 1500
B Confucianism (China) Discipline History To 1500
B Asia / Generals / HISTORY
B Buddhism / RELIGION / Buddhist) / General (see also PHILOSOPHY
B Oriental & Indian philosophy
B Buddhism
B Dreams (China) History
B PHILOSOPHY / Taoist
B Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / Taoist)
B PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist
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Summary:"Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing, diet, senses, desires, sexuality, even their dreams. Yet, compared with waking life, dreams are incongruous, unpredictable-in a word, strange. How, then, did these regimes of self-fashioning grapple with dreaming, a lawless yet ubiquitous domain of individual experience? In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE - 800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. Working through a wide range of scriptures, essays, treatises, biographies, commentaries, fictive dialogues, diary records, interpretive keys, and ritual instructions, Campany uncovers a set of discrete paradigms by which dreams were viewed and responded to by practitioners. He shows how these paradigms underlay texts of diverse religious and ideological persuasions that are usually treated in mutual isolation. The result is a provocative meditation on the relationship between individuals' nocturnal experiences and one culture's persistent attempts to discipline, interpret, and incorporate them into waking practice"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:067429372X