Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali

Translation and Interpretation

Christopher Key Chapple, Ana Laura Funes Maderey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7096-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra 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.

This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga Sūtra. It revisits Patañjali’s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives. Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between the realistic or idealistic interpretation of the text, the relation between Yoga and other Indian philosophical schools, the use of imagination in the pursuit of self-knowledge, the interplay between consciousness and nature, the possibilities and limitations of using it as a therapeutic philosophy, the science of meditation, and overcoming our fear of death probe the many dimensions that this text continues to offer for thought and reflection.

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.

Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations

I. Consciousness and Body

Chapter 1
Reflections on Liberated Consciousness
Ian Whicher
Chapter 2
On Metaphysics and Imagination (bhāvanā);
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 Yogasūtra
Kevin Perry Maroufkhani and Arindam Charkrabarti

III. Pātañjala Yoga and Other Traditions

Chapter 6
Yoga and the Yogasūtra in Classical Darśana
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 Yogasūtra and the Experience of Trauma
Stephanie Corigliano
Chapter 9
Abhiniveśa: Pātañjala-yoga on Death and Life
Daniel Raveh
Chapter 10
Activity, Cessation, and a Return to Origins in the Yoga Sūtra
Christopher Key Chapple

Bibliography
List of Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
Co-Autor	Mikel Burley, Ana Laura Funes Maderey, Christopher Key Chapple
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 232 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	1-4985-7096-8 / 1498570968
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-7096-1 / 9781498570961
Zustand	Neuware