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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Edited by Christopher Key Chapple and Ana Laura Funes Maderey - Contributions by Mikel Burley; Ana Laura Funes Maderey; Christopher Key Chapple; Arindam Chakrabarti; Stephanie Corigliano; Yohanan Grinshpon; Kevin Perry Maroufkhani; Stephen Phillips; Danie
Summary
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.
