The Tibetan Art of Dream Analysis
The Tibetan Art of Dream Analysis

Author: Nida Chenagtsang

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781909738058

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Most of us tend to dismiss the importance of our dreams. Even if we sense a deeper meaning, we are generally unable to say what a dream symbolises or see its connection to the important aspects of our everyday life. The Tibetan Art of Dream Analysis reveals how for over a thousand years Tibetan dream masters have been able to see the deep link between the dream world and the waking one. Through them we understand why nightly dreams can give clear signs of health warnings, conflicts, or foretell events yet to happen such as death, a birth, or other harbingers of wealth and happiness. This book provides a useful list of dream symbols and their hidden meanings as well as case studies of easy to read analyses of dreams. Those interested in going beyond merely understanding what a dream might mean will find, within its pages, very detailed, step-by-step approaches as practised by dream yoga masters long ago. For the truly committed this book holds out the ultimate goal of spiritual enlightenment for someone prepared to undertake the rigorous journey of an adept dream yoga practitioner.

The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Author: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1611809517

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Deepen your awareness through the Tibetan practice of sleep and dream yoga—both presented here in this “thought-provoking, inspiring, and lucid” guide (Stephen LaBerge, PhD, author of Lucid Dreaming) It is said that the practice of dream yoga deepens our awareness during all our experience: the dreams of the night; the dream-like experience of the day; and the bardo experiences after death. Indeed, the practice of dream yoga is a powerful tool of awakening, used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions. Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of mind or enlightenment itself. "If we cannot carry our practice into sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche states, "if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."

The Museum on the Roof of the World
The Museum on the Roof of the World

Author: Clare Harris

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0226317471

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For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.

Dreaming Yourself Awake
Dreaming Yourself Awake

Author: B. Alan Wallace

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 083482793X

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An “accessible look at the ways we can access the hidden adventures within our dreams and stretch our imaginations into the realm of enlightenment” through lucid dreaming and dream yoga (San Francisco Book Review) Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream. There is a range of techniques anyone can learn to become a lucid dreamer—and this book provides all the instruction you need to get started. But B. Alan Wallace also shows how to take the experience of lucid dreaming beyond entertainment to use it to heighten creativity, to solve problems, and to increase self-knowledge. He then goes a step further: moving on to the methods of Tibetan Buddhist dream yoga for using your lucid dreams to attain the profoundest kind of insight.

Karmamudra
Karmamudra

Author: Nida Chenagtsang

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780997731989

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Karmamudra is the ancient practice of partnered sexual yoga, a technique for transforming ordinary pleasure, worldly desire, and orgasm into vehicles for spiritual transformation and liberation. A ground breaking book by traditional Tibetan physician and yogi Dr. Nida Chenagtsang offering vital context and instruction, aimed to inform and empower.

Dreaming in the Lotus
Dreaming in the Lotus

Author: Serinity Young

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0861711580

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Surveys the complex history of Buddhist dream experience and analysis.

The Complete Book of Dreams
The Complete Book of Dreams

Author: Stephanie Gailing

Publisher: Wellfleet

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1577152131

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Live Your Dream Life! In The Complete Book of Dreams, wellness consultant Stephanie Gailing shows you how dreamwork can be an essential part of your self-care regimen, helping you connect to a life of greater well-being. And, since you need to sleep well to dream well, she also shares an array of slumber-inspiring tips and techniques. You'll discover practical strategies to take your sleep and dreams to the next level, including how to: elevate your ability to remember, journal, and decode your dreams, enhance your sleep and dreams with lifestyle practices and natural remedies such as essential oils, herbs, and flower essences, transform your bedroom into a sleep and dream sanctuary, apply lucid-dreaming techniques and nightmare-reduction strategies, use astrology to better understand your dreams, help your children forge a deeper connection to their sleep and dreams Filled with stellar insights and simple exercises, this beautifully illustrated book is a timeless resources that captures the essence of why dreams have been celebrated throughout history as carriers of awareness, wisdom, and healing. Book jacket.

Dreaming the Great Brahmin
Dreaming the Great Brahmin

Author: Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-06-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0195346637

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Dreaming the Great Brahmin explores the creation and recreation of Buddhist saints through narratives, poetry, art, ritual, and even dream visions. The first comprehensive cultural and literary history of the well-known Indian Buddhist poet saint Saraha, known as the Great Brahmin, this book argues that we should view Saraha not as the founder of a tradition, but rather as its product. Kurtis Schaeffer shows how images, tales, and teachings of Saraha were transmitted, transformed, and created by members of diverse Buddhist traditions in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. The result is that there is not one Great Brahmin, but many. More broadly, Schaeffer argues that the immense importance of saints for Buddhism is best understood by looking at the creative adaptations of such figures that perpetuated their fame, for it is there that these saints come to life.

New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming

Author: Jeannette Mageo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1000170551

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This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology. It incorporates new findings in neuroscience and philosophy of mind while demonstrating that dreams emerge from and comment on sociohistorical and cultural contexts. The chapters are written by prominent anthropologists working at the intersection of culture and consciousness who conduct ethnographic research in a variety of settings around the world, and reflect how dreaming is investigated by a range of informants in ever more diverse sites. As well as theorizing the dream in light of current anthropological and psychological research, the volume accounts for local dream theories and how they are situated within distinct cultural ontologies. It considers dreams as a resource for investigating and understanding cultural change; dreaming as a mode of thinking through, contesting, altering, consolidating, or escaping from identity; and the nature of dream mentation. In proposing new theoretical approaches to dreaming, the editors situate the topic within the recent call for an "anthropology of the night" and illustrate how dreams offer insight into current debates within anthropology’s mainstream. This up-to-date book defines a twenty-first century approach to culture and the dream that will be relevant to scholars from anthropology as well as other disciplines such as religious studies, the neurosciences, and psychology.