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    The Dun Huang Source Book on Dreams
    The Dun Huang Source Book on Dreams
    The Dun Huang Source Book on Dreams
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    The Dun Huang Source Book on Dreams

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    This book on the interpretation of dreams dates back to the late Tang Dynasty of Imperial China, about 1100 years ago. It provides the essence of a vast number of case studies conducted by the ancient Chinese. People would be invited into Temples and Monasteries and have their dreams recorded. The subsequent events in these people lives were then compared with the dreams they had. The dream symbols were then categorised and the quintessence of their respective meaning written down for futher reference.
    Until this day the patterns found and recorded prove to be as valuable and accurate as in the day they were recorded, just the images to the symbols may have changed.
    With this book, you can explore the landscape of your own dreams and gain insight into the messages they provide for your future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9783749418374
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      The Dun Huang Source Book on Dreams - Books on Demand

      Author:

      Unknown scholars of the Dun Huang area (China), ca. 900 AC

      Editor and translator: Arne Walter Ziems, August 2020

      More Info: www.othala.me

      This book is part of the series Translations of Chinese Classics:

      Vol. I : The Duke of Zhou´s Book of Dreams

      Vol. II : The Dun Huang Source Book of Dreams

      Read this first

      The character "/" (slash) indicates alternative ways how I saw fit to translate the meaning of the given chinese character-images into words.

      Chinese characters compose a picture illustrating an idea. As an image can carry way more meaning than mere words, I did my best to put the image painted into sentences, hoping to grasp the idea and convey the meaning.

      Round brackets "( )" indicate differing versions of the copies of the text.

      The translated text dates back to the late Tang Dynasty, it is about 1100 to 1200 years old. Several copies have been transmitted through time. Some of these copies differ in their transmitted content.

      Sometimes you will find three different lines transmitted, the interpretation of these might also contradict the meaning of a transmitted line from another copy.

      A comma "," separates the dream image from the interpretation or divination.

      The respective lines of the original text are written without any punctuation. I took the freedom to separate the dream image from the interpretation or divination for the purpose of easier comprehension.

      Squared brackets "[ ] in which the text inside is printed with italics" indicate my own commentaries or additions.

      Some background to the book

      Throughout the time of Imperial China, dreams were given a very high importance. In fact so much, that the messages of the dreams were regarded as unerring indicators or omens for success or failure. Dreams were seen to indicate the rise or fall of a person into position and salary, they would forecast health, disease or death, a happy or an unhappy home, the arrival of important matters and letters etc.

      The Dun Huang Source Book of Dreams dates back to the late Tang Dynasty, around 1100 to 1200 years back from today. Unlike the modern western psychology of dream interpretation it is not based on hypothetical guesswork were one invents some frame of symbology and then tries to prove by the dreams that the hypothesis should be right. On the contrary, the approach of the old Chinese was that of a true empirical science, finding veracity and meaning of the dream symbols by first recording the dreams in detail and then waiting out what events happened in the life of the dreamer. They collected an extensive base of case studies in that manner and only when a solid database had been established, they would match the symbols of the dreams to the outcomes that most likely would follow them. To be able to do this, they would entertain a number of sites, usually

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