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  • 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.