| Description |
1 online resource (565 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Editorial board -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- A note on terms and translations -- Part I Introduction to yoga and meditation studies -- 1 Reframing yoga and meditation studies -- Introduction -- Defining meditation and yoga: the challenges -- Shifting discussions and emerging areas of research -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Decolonising yoga -- Why decolonise? -- Knowledge, body, empire -- Travel, positionality and power -- Nationalism, decolonisation, recolonisation |
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Conclusion: towards yoga as critique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Meditation in contemporary contexts: Current discussions -- Introduction -- Challenges of definition -- Historical and comparative approaches -- Research positions -- Critical discourses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy -- Introduction -- Varieties of scholar-practitioner -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Neoliberal yoga -- Introduction -- Selling yoga -- Neoliberal yoga -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Part II History of yoga and meditation in South Asia -- 6 How yoga became yoga: Yoga and meditation up to the classical period -- Introduction -- Pre-classical period -- Prehistoric: the Indus Valley Civilization -- Early history: yoga in the Vedas -- What was the praxis of the Buddha called? -- Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita: sam.khya and yoga (theory and practice) -- The terms yogavacara and yogacara in Buddhist sources -- Hiran.yagarbha's Yogasastra -- Pasupatayoga -- Classical period -- The Patañjalayogasastra -- Classical period after the Patañjalayogasastra -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations |
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Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Buddhist meditation in South Asia: An overview -- Introduction -- Key terms -- Meditation subjects -- Main meditative techniques and paths of spiritual cultivation -- Early and mainstream Buddhism -- Tranquillity and insight -- The path of spiritual cultivation in Sarvastivada Buddhism -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Emptiness and compassion -- The path of spiritual cultivation in Yogacara Buddhism -- Tantric Buddhism -- Visualisations and energy control -- The path of spiritual cultivation in the noble lineage of the esoteric community -- In lieu of conclusion |
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Original sources and abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Tantric transformations of yoga: Kun.d.alini in the ninth to tenth century -- Introduction -- Ṣaṭka 1 -- Ṣaṭka 2 -- Ṣaṭka 3 -- Ṣaṭka 4 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Early haṭhayoga -- Introduction -- Textual criticism and haṭhayoga -- Precursors of haṭhayoga -- Early haṭha's textual corpus -- Goals of haṭhayoga -- Haṭhayoga after the Haṭhapradipika -- Haṭhayoga in contemporary ascetic culture -- Haṭhayoga in modern global yoga -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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10 Yoga and meditation in modern esoteric traditions |
| Subject |
Yoga.
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Meditation.
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Yoga (philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Brien-Kop, Karen
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| ISBN |
9781351050739 |
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1351050737 |
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