Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth

A Brief History and Philosophy

Stephen Phillips (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2009
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-14485-8 (ISBN)

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For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India and continue to shape it today. In discussing yoga's fundamental commitments, Phillips explores traditional teachings of hatha yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and tantra, and shows how such core concepts as self-monitoring consciousness, karma, nonharmfulness (ahimsa), reincarnation, and the powers of consciousness relate to modern practice. He outlines values implicit in bhakti yoga and the tantric yoga of beauty and art and explains the occult psychologies of koshas, skandhas, and chakras. His book incorporates original translations from the early Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutra (the entire text), the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and seminal tantric writings of the tenth-century Kashmiri Shaivite, Abhinava Gupta.
A glossary defining more than three hundred technical terms and an extensive bibliography offer further help to nonscholars. A remarkable exploration of yoga's conceptual legacy, Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth crystallizes ideas about self and reality that unite the many incarnations of yoga.

Stephen Phillips is professor of philosophy and Asian studies at the University of Texas at Austin and has been visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is the author of six books, including Epistemology of Perception: Gangesa's Tattvacintamani, Jewel of Reflection on the Truth About Knowledge, and numerous papers, many featuring first-time translations of late classical Sanskrit philosophic texts.

PrefaceIntroduction: Setting an Intention1. Theory and Practice2. Yoga and Metaphysics3. Karma4. Rebirth5. PowersAppendix A. Select Yogic Passages from the Early UpanishadsAppendix B. Yogic Passages in the Bhagavad GitaAppendix C. The Yoga SutraAppendix D. Selections from (Tantric) Kashmiri Shaivite TextsAppendix E. Selections from the Hatha Yoga PradipikaGlossaryNotesBibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.5.2009
Zusatzinfo	4 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-231-14485-7 / 0231144857
ISBN-13	978-0-231-14485-8 / 9780231144858
Zustand	Neuware