Dreaming in the Lotus

by Young, Serinity

• ISBN13: 9780861711581
• ISBN10: 0861711580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Wisdom Pubns

Summary

Surveys the complex history of Buddhist dream experience and analysis.

Author Biography

Serinity Young is currently a professor at Southern Methodist University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Abbreviations	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Indo-Tibetan Dreaming
Dreams, Religion, and Sacred Biography	p. 7
Dreams in World Religions	p. 7
Dreams in Buddhist Sacred Biography	p. 8
Elite versus Popular Views of Dreaming	p. 15
The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams	p. 18
Dreams in the Biographies of the Buddha	p. 21
Queen Maya's Dream	p. 21
The Dreams of the Buddha	p. 24
The Dreams of Others	p. 33
Early Buddhist Dream Theory	p. 43
Pali Texts	p. 43
The Asokavadana	p. 47
The Sardulakarnavadana	p. 50
Buddhist Understandings of the Self and Consciousness	p. 51
Dreams in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism	p. 55
Indigenous Practices	p. 56
Buddhist Influences in Tibet	p. 59
Medical Texts	p. 65
Continuity of Dream Material
Conception Dreams	p. 75
Shared Dreams	p. 87
Dreams as Signs of Spiritual Accomplishment	p. 95
The Buddha	p. 96
Milarepa and His Disciples	p. 97
The Ability to Interpret Dreams	p. 108
Innovations in Dream Material
Dream Yoga	p. 117
Dreams and Religious Innovation	p. 117
The Six Yogas	p. 120
Practice in Tibet	p. 125
Ritual Dreaming	p. 129
Sought Dreams	p. 129
Rituals to Counteract Bad Dreams	p. 135
Dream Rituals from the Kangyur and Tangyur	p. 137
Gender in Indo-Tibetan Dreaming	p. 147
Women and Female Deities in Men's Dreams	p. 148
Women Dreamers	p. 152
Dreams, Death, and Women	p. 160
Conclusions	p. 163
Lucid Dreaming	p. 167
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography
Texts and Translations	p. 245
Secondary Sources	p. 253
Index	p. 279
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