"Sogno o son desto?" : prolungamenti onirici nella letteratura sapienziale indiana con particolare attenzione all'Advaita Vedānta

This doctoral dissertation concerns the concept of dream in Advaita Vedānta. I started from an analytical survey of the vedic literature, passing through the vedic ancillary literature. The next chapter deals with the views on dream in other systems of philosophy. The third chapter focuses on some of the most recurrent concepts connected with the central theme of dream epistemology: the three ranks of ontological reality of the Advaitin-s, the theories of perceptual error, the concept of falsity, the concept of witness and some others. The next two chapters treat dream and the knowledge arising from it according to the Advaita system. The first part is devoted to the investigation of the dream experience in Śaṅkara’s commentaries on the Upaniṣad-s. Consequently, having explained and briefly dealt with them, I look at the Brahmasūtra and its interpretations.