Summary:
The interpretation of dreams has always been an important feature of Chinese culture, both learned and popular. This article aims to analyse how Jesuit missionaries in China approached this issue. In theory, missionaries from the Society of Jesus had their own oneirology, inherited from Aristotle, and some of them, such as Francesco Sambiasi and Giulio Aleni, wrote on the matter. However, Jesuit records show that this subject was far from unanimously treated within the Society. Jesuit archives in the Biblioteca da Ajuda (Lisbon) contain several accounts of dreams of Chinese converts, as well as some comments from missionaries on the subject.
This article also contains a case-study of dream accounts and visions of a Chinese convert whose biography was written by Jacques Motel SJ (1616–92).
Summary also in Portuguese.

Local access dig.pdf. [Ribeiro-Dreams.pdf]

Contents: Preface -- 1. Jesus -- 2. Jesus and Buddha -- 3. Jesus and Krishna -- 4. Jesus and Mahavira -- 5. Jesus and Nanak -- 6. Jesus and Confucius 孔子 -- 7. Jesus and Lao-tzu 老子 -- 8. Jesus and Zoroaster -- 9. Jesus and Moses -- 10. Jesus and Mohammed -- Index

Lao Tzu and the Bible : a meeting transcending time and space / ǂc Yuan Zhiming ; translated by Chen Shangyu.

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 393-400).

Introduction: the Majesty of Ancient Tao -- Part 1: The Seven Characteristics of Tao -- Part 2: The Incarnation of Tao -- About the Holy One -- Part 3: The Way of Tao -- Spiritual Cultivation -- Part 4: Metaphors of Following Tao.

"...Apologetic text (in the form of a dialogue between anonymous people: a missionary or convert and a Confucian scholar) dealing with the folowing subjects: the nature of spirits, the soul and the body (pp. 405-413); the soul's independence of the body (415-419); animals have no soul (421-425); the immortality of the soul (427-434); the Great Ulimate is not the Creator (435-441); xingming, life (443-444); orthodox and heterodox spirits (444-454); man is directed toward the Upper Lord, shangzhu (455-463); retribution of good and evil after death (465-473); true religion is not restricted to the right morality (475-479); the need for true religion, i.e. that of the Lord of Heaven (481-485)...."
Source: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

Contents: Forward: The heart of dialogue / Thomas G. Hand, S.J.--Preface: The dialogue in its monastic setting / David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B.--Introduction: Bruno Barnhart, O.S.B. Cam. and Joseph Wong, O.S.B. Cam.--Regaining the lost kingdom: purity and meditation in the Hindu spiritual tradition / Pravrajika Vrajaprana--Heart Yoga: a comparison of two texts, Pratyabhijna-hridayam (Kashmir, 11th cent.)and Kaivalya-darsanam (West Bengal, 9th cent.) / Thomas Matus, O.S.B. Cam.--The space in the lotus of the heart: the anthropological spirit in the writings of Bede Griffiths / Cyprian Consiglio, O.S.B. Cam.--Glistening frost and cooking sand: unalterable aspects of purity in Chan Buddhist meditation / Martin J. Verhoeven--Cleansing the heart: Buddhist bowing as contemplation / Rev. Heng Sure--The historical Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism in dialogue with the unknown author of the Cloud of unknowing / Nicholas Koss, O.S.B.--Zen and the impurity of purity / Francis H. Cook--Zazen: a path from judgement to love / William Skudlarek, O.S.B.--Sacred fools and monastic rules: Zen rule-bending and the training for pure hearts / Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton--Doutb and breakthrough in the desert fathers / Kevin Hunt, O.C.S.O.--The Taoist tradition of meditation: history, transformation and comparison / Liu Xiaogan--Chaos: a thematic contenuity between early Taoism and the way of the golden elixir / Paul Crowe--Through detachment to vision: Chuang-tzu and Meister Eckhart / Joseph Wong, O.S.B. Cam.--Benedictine humility and Confucian sincerity / Donald Corcoran, O.S.B. Cam.--Purity of heart: discovering what you really want / Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.--On the recreating of desire and purity of heart: an explination / Bede Healey, O.S.B. Cam.--Purity of heart: a dialogue / Mary Margaret Funk, O.S.B.--Christian self-understanding in the light of the East: new birth and unitive conciousness / Bruno Barnhart, O.S.B. Cam.

'...[Both] works give a broad introduction to the main elements of the Christian faith, scholastic theology, and Catholic liturgy .... associations with the Confucian tradition on different levels, Zhu also stressed elements like the power of Christian symbols over evil spirits. Buddhist and Taoist (Daoist) beliefs and practices were refuted in great detail..." --Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 430, 617.
See also: Zhu, Da ke wen 答客問.

Cover illustration: Bibliotheque National de France. Courant 7139
明末淸初耶穌会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第32册.
本书據法囯囯家图书馆藏本排印.

Local access dig.pdf. in folder: [Andrew Chung Series].

The cover bears the title in Chinese with a Latin inscription: “De vera et falsa religione, a licencia | to christ^o Chu çum yuen.”

Cf. Courant 7139–7142; Hsü 1949, pp. 155–156; JWC 2:91–98; Fang Hao 1947, pp. 69–73.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 191-192.

JapSin I, 145a
Zhengshi lüeshuo 拯世略說.
By Zhu Zongyuan 朱宗元.
One juan. Chinese bamboo paper in one volume. No date or place of publication.

This is a duplicate of Jap-Sin I, 145, as is Jap-Sin I, 166 d.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 192.

JapSin I, 166.a
Zhengshi lüeshuo 拯世略說
By Zhu Zongyuan 朱宗元.
One juan. Chinese bamboo paper in one volume. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears the title and a Latin inscription: “De vera et falsa | religione | a licentiato christiano Chu Çum yuen.”

Full bibliographic citation, see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).