Reconciling Yogas

Christopher Key Chapple, John Thomas Casey

Description

Reconciling Yogas explores five approaches to the accomplishment of Yoga from a variety of religious perspectives: Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist. Haribhadra, a prolific Jaina scholar who espoused a universal view of religion, proclaimed that truth can be found in all faiths and sought to elucidate differences between various schools of thought. In Yoga, he discovered a form of spiritual practice common to many faiths and juxtaposed their paths to demonstrate the common goal of liberation. Utilizing the structure of Patañjali's advanced eightfold path of Yoga in the Yoga Sutra, Haribhadra formulates his own eight stages of Yoga to which he assigns titles in the feminine gender that echo the names of goddesses. Discussed are the Jaina stages of spiritual ascent and two forms of Yoga for which there is no other account. Also included is a new translation of the Yogadrstisamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.

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

Sujets

• East Asian religions
• Hinduism

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791486023
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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