Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 Bce800 Ce

Informationen zum Autor Robert Ford Campany is Professor of Asian and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China and Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China . Klappentext 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. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts. Zusammenfassung 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. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ford Campany, Campany Robert Ford
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780674293731
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29373-1
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, PHILOSOPHY / Taoist, Buddhism, Asian History, RELIGION / Taoism, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Taoism