Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE（《戰國到唐代（公元前300年到公元800年）中國人的做夢與修行》）

書名：Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE（《戰國到唐代（公元前300年到公元800年）中國人的做夢與修行》）作者：康儒博（Robert Ford Campany）

出版信息：哈佛燕京学社专著系列 (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

ISBN：9780674293731

【內容提要】

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 domain of individual experience?

In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. Working through a wide range of scriptures, essays, treatises, biographies, commentaries, fictive dialogues, diary records, interpretive keys, and ritual instructions, Campany uncovers a set of discrete paradigms by which dreams were viewed and responded to by practitioners. He shows how these paradigms underlay texts of diverse religious and ideological persuasions that are usually treated in mutual isolation. The result is a provocative meditation on the relationship between individuals’ nocturnal experiences and one culture’s persistent attempts to discipline, interpret, and incorporate them into waking practice.

【作者介紹】

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.

康儒博（Robert Ford Campany），美國芝加哥大學博士，范德堡大學亞洲研究和宗教學教授。著有《冥祥記：中國中古早期的佛教靈應故事》、《修仙：古代中國的修行與社會記憶》等。

（來源：李澂）