[INDOLOGY] Lucid dreaming in Sanskrit?
Jan E.M. Houben
jemhouben at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 09:58:43 UTC 2017
Dear Martin,
In addition to the references already given, you may want to have a look at
the book The Indian Night: Sleep and Dreams in Indian Culture, ed. by C.
Bautze-Picron, Delhi: Rupa & Co. 2009.
>From the Foreword:
"The papers included in the present publication derive from a conference on
"Le sommeil dans le monde indien. Eclairages comparatifs"
(Sleep and Dreams in the Indian World. Comparative Englightenments) held at
the University of Paris-3, Sorbonne Nouvelle,
in April 2004, 5th-7th, under the patronage of the University of Paris-3
and the National Centre for Scientific Research."
Here's the ToC:
The Indian Night - Sleep and Dreams in Indian Culture
ed. by Claudine Bautze-Picron
Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2009
Contents
Foreword vii
The Physiology of Dreams
1.
Dream Physiology: A Western View on Dreams
Jean-Louis Valatx 3
2.
Dreaming and Dying in Indian Mythology and AAyurvedic Classical Texts
Martin Mittwede 21
The Meaning of Dream
3.
A Song Against Bad Dreams: Magic, Superstition or Psychology?
J.E.M. Houben 37
4.
Dreams and other States of Consciousness in the Mok.sopaaya1
Juergen Hanneder 64
Dreams and Sleep in Praxis
5.
How to sleep? What to dream?
Nalini Balbir 103
6.
Dreams in the ;Saivite Practice
Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret 159
7.
Dreams and Transgressions in the Sanskrit Prescriptive Texts
Jean Fezas 173
8.
The Role of Dreams in Accessing Higher States of Consciousness as Practised
in a Contemporary Indian Ashram
Madhu Tandan 192
Dreams and Sleep in Language and Literature
9.
Sleep and Dream in the Lexicon of the Indo-European Languages
Georges-Jean Pinault 225
10.
Common Dream and its Interpretation according to Indian narrative Material
Jean-Pierre Osier 260
11.
Between Dream and Reality: Literary Function of Dreams
Sylvain Brocquet 275
12.
Sleep and Dreams in the Raama-Kathaas
Eva De Clercq 303
13.
The Nightmare in Tamil Short Stories
Chantal Delamourd 329
Dreams in Buddhism
14.
Maayaa's Dream
Anna Maria Quagliotti 349
15.
The Presence of Five Dreams
Claudine Bautze-Picron 418
16.
Dreams about the Buddha's Departure
Serinity Young 452
17.
Riding the Ass
Daniele Masset 468
Dreams from Abroad
18.
The Role of Dreams in Muslim Mysticism
Pierre Lory 493
19.
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams, in the History of Japanese Civilisation
Hartmut O. Rotermund 506
Images of Dreams and Sleep
20.
Representations of Vi.s.nu's Cosmic Sleep in Nepalese Sculpture
Anne-Claire Juramie 539
21.
;Sayana Forms of Devii in Sculptural Tradition from Central India
Anne Casile 566
22.
Two Illustrated Manuscripts on Dreams and Omens
Joachim K. Bautze 615
The Authors 653
***
*Jan E.M. HOUBEN*
Directeur d’Études
Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite
Professor of South Asian History and Philology
*École Pratique des Hautes Études*
*Sciences historiques et philologiques *
54, rue Saint-Jacques
CS 20525 – 75005 Paris
johannes.houben at ephe.sorbonne.fr
https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben
www.ephe.fr
On 10 September 2017 at 10:16, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> Many thanks to all who replied to this query. So far there seems to be
> precious little material on lucid dreaming in Sanskrit, particularly in
> non-Buddhist sources. The reference to Patañjali is presumably to YS (or
> PYŚ, if one prefers) 1.38, but the connection looks slim to nonexistent to
> me; the same is true of Haṭha(yoga)pradīpikā 4.49, though I haven't
> explored any commentarial literature on that passage. The
> Hanneder/Mokṣopāya reference sounds more promising, and I'll try to follow
> it up. Eli Franco mentioned the term svapnāntika-jñāna, but not where it is
> found; I see that Monier-Williams (following Böhtlingk/Roth) gives the
> Vaiśeṣikasūtra as a source for svapnāntika -- an unlikely place for a
> discussion of lucid dreaming, I'd have thought, but worth looking up.
>
> Thanks again,
> Martin G.
>
>
>
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