Reconciling Yogas

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Reconciling Yogas
Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga With a New Translation of Haribhadra's Yogadrstisamuccaya by Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey

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Christopher Key Chapple - Author
John Thomas Casey - Translator

Price: $54.50
Hardcover - 182 pages

Release Date: November 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5899-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5899-0

Price: $26.95
Paperback - 182 pages

Release Date: November 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5900-4
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5900-3

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Summary

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 Yogadrstisamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.

“Anyone interested in Indian philosophy and ethics or in the theoretical background of Yoga will find this publication rewarding reading.” — Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive

"This is a rare piece of work and a wonderful contribution to the field. This book offers what may be the first translation of its kind." — Ashok K. Malhotra, author of An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy: An Annotated Translation of the Yoga Sutras

"The brilliance of the author's analysis is in the depth and thoroughness with which he reconstructs an architectonic in presenting Haribhadra's contribution to Yoga." — Gregory P. Fields, author of Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra

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.

Table of Contents

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

Related Subjects

Asian Religion and Philosophy
Hindu Studies
Religion
Yoga

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