Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE
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- Hardcover
326 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2023
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 domai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674293724 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067429372X |
| Author: | Robert Ford Campany |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 326 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series |
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Critics Review
Campany analyzes both well-known and little-studied materials primarily drawn from the Buddhist and Daoist canons, offers detailed explorations of important texts previously un-discussed or under-discussed in Western-language scholarship, and provides extensive translations done to a high philological standard…[this book] brings to completion one of the most compelling, productive, and likely seminal research agendas the field of medieval China has seen in recent years…The field is fortunate that a scholar as widely learned, philologically reliable, methodologically innovative, and honestly self-reflective as Campany has undertaken the work. – Lucas Rambo Bender * Early Medieval China *
A testament to Campany’s expertise and dedication to the study of ancient Chinese religious and philosophical traditions, the book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the relationship between dreams and self-cultivation in China. – Yan Du and Ziqiang Zhao * Religious Studies Review *
Robert Ford Campany
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.
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