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Zusatztext This book is ground-breaking, not only in its recognition and analysis of the Buddhist backdrop to Patanjali’s Yoga tradition, but also in the application of cognitive metaphor theory to the study of Indian philosophical texts. In overcoming reified and anachronistic notions of “Hindu” and “Buddhist” in the study of contemplative traditions of ancient India, this work is to be highly recommended to anyone wishing to understand the broader intellectual and yogic context out of which Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras emerged. Informationen zum Autor Karen O'Brien-Kop is Lecturer in Asian Religions at King's College London, UK. She is co-chair of the 'Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue' unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), is co-convenor of the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions and a co-editor of the academic journal Religions of South Asia . Zusammenfassung Challenges our understanding of ‘classical’ yoga and expands it beyond Patañjala yoga, showing how Hinduism and Buddhism co-constructed systems of yoga discipline using shared conceptual metaphors. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements AbbreviationsIntroduction: Classical Yoga and Buddhism: Debates, Dialogue and Intertextuality1. Moksa, Metaphors, and Materiality: Concepts and Contexts of 'Liberation'2. Seeds of Bondage and Freedom: Eliminating the Afflictions (Klesas) in the Patanjalayogasastra and the Abhidharmakosabhaya 3. The 'Other' Yoga sastra : The Yogacarabhumisastra 4: Patanjala Yoga and Yogacara: the Cultivation of the Counterstate5. Who Put the Classical in Classical Yoga? The Inadequacy of an Analytic Category 6: Conclusion: Rethinking Classical Yoga: A Categorical Paradigm Shift?Appendices Bibliography Index
