Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE
Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean.…
Specifikacia Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE
Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE
Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. He maps a common dreamscape--an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke--that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams.
Do dreams foretell future events? These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions.In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? If so, how might their