Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism

Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality

AvKaren O'Brien-Kop,Bettina E. Schmidt

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called ‘yoga’ in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O’Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the cultural period of the 1st – 5th centuries CE using categorical markers from South Asian intellectual history. Buddhist traditions were just as concerned as Hindu traditions with meditative disciplines of yoga. By exploring the intertextuality of the Patanjalayogasastra with texts such as Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosabhasya and Asanga’s Yogacarabhumisastra, this book highlights and clarifies many ideologically Buddhist concepts and practices in Patanjala yoga. Karen O’Brien-Kop demonstrates that ‘classical yoga’ was co-constructed systemically by both Hindu and Buddhist thinkers who were drawing on the same conceptual metaphors of the period. This analysis demystifies early yoga-meditation as a timeless ‘classical’ practice and locates it in a specific material context of agrarian and urban economies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-20
Mått:150 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350230033

Utforska kategorier

Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion
Buddhism inom Filosofi och religion

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Karen O’Brien-Kop is Lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics at the University of Roehampton, UK.

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Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism offers a new and valuable discussion of the early history of yoga. It brings a careful assessment of metaphor theory into the discussion of early Indian soteriology, and explores the intertwined nature of Indian religious practices that we too easily divide off as “Hindu” and “Buddhist”. A wonderful contribution to our understanding of Indian religion, literature and history.

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: 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 Abhidharmakosabhaya3. The 'Other' Yoga sastra: The Yogacarabhumisastra4: Patanjala Yoga and Yogacara: the Cultivation of the Counterstate5. Who Put the Classical in Classical Yoga? The Inadequacy of an Analytic Category6: Conclusion: Rethinking Classical Yoga: A Categorical Paradigm Shift?AppendicesBibliographyIndex

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