| Dreaming in the Lotus: Buddhist Dream Narrative, Imagery & Practice Contributor(s): Young, Serinity (Author), Rupprecht, Carol Schreier (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0861711580 ISBN-13: 9780861711581 Publisher: Wisdom Publications OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1995 Annotation: A fascinating, culturally varied picture of the Buddhist dream experience and its revelations about Buddhist ideas of consciousness, cognition and salvation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) |
| Dewey: 294.344 |
| LCCN: 99033959 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (0.99 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dreams play a powerful role in the sacred biographies of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: they foretell the births of religious figures, describe their accomplishments, and reveal esoteric teachings. In this fascinating study of the Buddhist dream experience, Dr. Serinity Young explores the complex functions of dreams in the sacred biographies of the Buddha and other central Buddhist figures, and reveals the ever-changing nature of dreams in Buddhist thought and practice. Young presents a fascinating, culturally varied picture of the Buddhist dream experience and its revelations about Buddhist ideas of consciousness, cognition, and salvation. Using biographies of the Buddha and other important Buddhist figures, Serinity Young explores the functions of dreams and maps their role at the intersection of biography, history, and religious belief. |
Contributor Bio(s): Young, Serinity: - Serinity Young received her PhD from Columbia University and is an adjunct assistant professor at Queens College, where she administers the Himalayan Studies minor. She is also a research associate in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, where she works on Tibetan artifacts and iconography. She has been awarded two Fulbrights, two Asian Cultural Council grants, was a research scholar in the History of Science and in Archaeology at ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, and has been elected to the Hunter College Alumni Hall of Fame. Her research focuses on gender issues in Buddhist texts, material culture, and rituals; shamanism; sacred biography; pilgrimage; healing and medicine; dream theory; and archaeology. She has done fieldwork in India, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, and Russia. She is the author of Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Ritual, and Iconography (Routledge, 2004) and Dreaming in the Lotus: Buddhist Dream Narrative, Imagery, and Practice (Wisdom, 1999); editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (Macmillan 1998); editor of An Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women (Crossroads and HarperCollins, 1993); most recently she has published Body and Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings, (AMNH Publications and University of Washington Press, 2009) and has several electronic publications on the AMNH website, www.amnh.org. >Rupprecht, Carol Schreier: - Carol Schreier Rupprecht began her academic career at Kirkland College. When Kirkland merged with Hamilton College in 1978, she remained on the faculty at Hamilton until her retirement in 2007. At Hamilton she served as associate dean of students and chair of the department of comparative literature. Professor Rupprecht was the editor of The Dream and The Text: Essays on Literature and Language (State University of New York Press, 1993) and co-editor of Feminist Archetypal Theory: Interdisciplinary Re-Visions of Jungian Thought (University of Tennessee Press, 1985). She served as president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and was senior editor of its journal, Dreaming. Dr. Rupprecht was a graduate of the University of Virginia. She held three degrees from Yale University, including a PhD in comparative literature. She passed away in 2012. |