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This book explores Patañjali's Yoga S¿tra from a contemporary scholarly perspective. Chapters in this book explore questions regarding its metaphysics, epistemology, and praxis. Contributors to this volume guide us in a philosophical journey through this text that will be of interest to scholars and yoga practitioners alike.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
I. Consciousness and Body
Chapter 1
Reflections on Liberated Consciousness
Ian Whicher
Chapter 2
On Metaphysics and Imagination (bh¿van¿);
a Note on Patañjali's Siddhis as Yogic Visualization
Yohanan Grinshpon
Chapter 3
The Perfect Body in Classical Yoga Philosophy
Ana Laura Funes Maderey
II. Realism vs. Idealism
Chapter 4
The Purported Realism of Classical Yoga
Mikel Burley
Chapter 5
Realism and Omniscience in the Yogas¿tra
Kevin Perry Maroufkhani and Arindam Charkrabarti
III. P¿tañjala Yoga and Other Traditions
Chapter 6
Yoga and the Yogas¿tra in Classical Dar¿ana
Stephen Phillips
Chapter 7
Can there be a Science of Meditation?
Arindam Chakrabarti
IV. Suffering, Death, and Return to Origins
Chapter 8
The Making and Unmaking of the Self: Patañjali's Yogas¿tra and the Experience of Trauma
Stephanie Corigliano
Chapter 9
Abhinive¿a: P¿tañjala-yoga on Death and Life
Daniel Raveh
Chapter 10
Activity, Cessation, and a Return to Origins in the Yoga S¿tra
Christopher Key Chapple
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi professor of Indic and comparative theology and director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Ana Laura Funes Maderey is assistant professor of philosophy at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Zusammenfassung
This book explores Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra from a contemporary scholarly perspective. Chapters in this book explore questions regarding its metaphysics, epistemology, and praxis. Contributors to this volume guide us in a philosophical journey through this text that will be of interest to scholars and yoga practitioners alike.
