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Dream Practices in Medieval Tibet

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This essay presents a variety of medieval Tibetan Buddhist dream practices culled from many different sources, such as medical texts, biographies, religious texts, and folklore. Some of this material is here translated into English for the first time. The dreaming techniques presented in these texts bring out religious and philosophical connections between body and consciousness. The range and diversity of the original sources required a broad interdisciplinary approach using literary studies, religious studies, philosophy, linguistics, and other disciplines.

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Young, S. Dream Practices in Medieval Tibet. Dreaming 9, 23–42 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021364909895

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