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.

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 Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.

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Explores 5 approaches to the accomplishment of Yoga from a variety of religious perspectives. Utilizing the structure of Pantanjali's advanced eightfold path of Yoga in the Yoga Sutra, Haribhadra formulates his own eight stages.
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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

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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.

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ISBN
9780791459003
Publisert
2003-11-06
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
254 gr
Aldersnivå
G, P, U, 01, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
182

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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.