Chapple Reconciling Yogas

Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga With a New Translation of Haribhadra's Yogadrstisamuccaya by Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8602-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 182 Seiten

Presents the various religious approaches to Yoga described by Haribhadra, the eighth-century sage, who held a universal view of religion. Includes a translation of his original text on Yoga.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chapple, Christopher Key

Weitere Mitwirkende

Casey, John Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Life Story of Haribhadra
2. Haribhadra and Patañjali
3. The Vedantin Yoga of Bhagavaddata and the Buddhist Yoga of Bhaskara
4. Centrality of the Real
5. Purity in Patañjali and Haribhadra
6. Haribhadra's Critique of Tantric Yoga
7. Haribhadra's Sociology of Yoga and Its Culmination
Chart Comparing Forms of Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya
Yogadrstisamuccaya (A Collection of Views on Yoga)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Key Chapple is Professor of Theological Studies and Director of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He has published several books, including Karma and Creativity and Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions, both with SUNY Press. John Thomas Casey is Visiting Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University.