Purpose. The aim of this research is to examine the experience of using cinematic resources to reshape the worldview among the population of a multi-confessional country using scientific and artistic approaches. One of the key aspects of Sovietization was the anti-religious campaign, designed to get rid of heterogeneous confessional “prejudices” and construct in the consciousness of the masses...
The article aims to explore alleged folklore basis of three Chinese chuanqi tales about a husband's intrusion into his wife's dream written during the middle-late Tang period, namely, the first episode of “A Record of Three Dreams” by Bai Xingjian, “Student Zhang” by Li Mei, and “Dugu Xiashu” by Xue Yusi. The psychologism inherent in these stories masks their closeness to folklore and...
Gerhard Oberhammer is a prominent Austrian scholar of Indian philosophy and religions. This paper presents an analysis of Oberhammer’s works on spiritual practices of sāṃkhya and yoga. Based on the works that belong to the traditions of sāṃkhya, Patañjali’s yoga and the Pāśupata’s śaivism, Oberhammer reconstructed the phenomenology of each spiritual path and developed a general typology of...
The paper focuses on the Taoist concept of “dreams”, which is considered from the point of view of the meditative practice of “realized dreams” or “controlled visions”. Famous Taoist masters Chen Tuan (10th cent.), Ma Danyang (12th cent.), Bai Yuchan (12th cent.) and many others implemented techniques of “controlled dreams” as a type of meditative alchemical practice: erasing the frontier...