Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Shamanisms and Dreams -- World as Being -- Animate and Inanimate Beings -- Contracts and Negotiation -- Joining Heaven and Earth -- Sleep and Dream as Shamanic Activity -- Dream, Initiation, and Power -- Envisioning the Invisible -- Ch. 2 Dream in the Ancient Indian Matrix -- Ritual and Homology in the Vedas -- Vitality and Power in the Vedas -- Sleep and Dream in the Vedas -- Self and Dream in the Upanisads -- Ch. 3 Indian Buddhist Views of Dream -- Buddhist Dream Theory and Its Indian Context -- Dream and Direct Perception of the Buddha -- Dreaming and Paranormal Powers -- Dream Interpretation and Classification -- Conception Dream of Queen Maya -- Dreams of Awakening -- Dream and the Moral Condition of the Dreamer -- Ch. 4 Dream in the Tibetan Context -- Conflict and Competition -- Lama, the Shaman, and the Yogi -- Dream and Liberation: The Bodhi Orientation -- Dreaming and Dying: The Karma Orientation -- Dream and Divination: The Pragmatic Orientation -- Buddhist Distinctions between Lama and Shaman -- Shamanism and Soteriology -- Ch. 5 Tibetan Dream Theory, Imagery, and Interpretation -- General Dream Theory -- Theory and Imagery from Medical Texts -- Popular Dream Images -- Dream and Evidence of Success in Religious Practice -- Gaining Permission of the Deity -- Question of Tendrel -- Dream and the Illusion of Illusion -- Appendix. Gampopa's Dreams
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index
