Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James LarsonKnut A. Jacobsen This collection of original essays provides fascinating insights into yoga as a historical and pluralistic phenomenon flourishing in a variety of religious and philosophical contexts. They cover a wide variety of traditions and topics related to Yoga: Classical Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantric Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, the Guru, Indic Islamic traditions of Yoga, Yoga and asceticism in contemporary India, and the reception of Yoga in the West. The essays are written by eighteen professors in the field of the history of religions, most of them former graduate students of Gerald James Larson, Larson is Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, an internationally acclaimed scholar on the history of religions and philosophies of India, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Samkhya and Yoga traditions. The publication is in honour of him. |
Contents
Yoga Traditions | 1 |
Person Purity and Power in the Yogasūtra | 29 |
Revisiting the Jīvanmukti Question in Sāṃkhya in the Context of the Sāṃkhyasūtra | 61 |
Crossexamining the Notion of Self in śaṅkaras Upadeśasāhasrī īśvarakṛṣṇas Sāṃkhyakārikā and Patañjalis Yogasūtra | 75 |
It Aint Necessarily So | 99 |
The SāṃkhyaYoga Influence on śrīvaiṣṇava Philosophy with Special Reference to the Pāñcarātra System | 129 |
An Analysis of Samādhi in the TrikaKaula Tradition | 143 |
On Subtle Knowledge and the Refinement of Thought in Abhinavaguptas Liberative Tantric Method | 181 |
A SāṃkhyaYoga Renaissance in Bengal | 333 |
Maternal Devotion as a Form of Yoga in a Womens Ritual Tradition | 351 |
Yoga in the Platonic Dialogues | 363 |
Jungs Depth Psychology and Yoga Sādhana | 385 |
Some Reflections from the Heartland | 409 |
Preliminary Remarks | 425 |
A Personal Reflection | 445 |
Appointments and Publications | 449 |
Meaning and Visualization in Tantric Literature | 213 |
Observations on Its Teachings and the guru Institute | 237 |
The Sāṃkhya Sage Kapila and Kashmiri Viṣṇu Images | 293 |
The Yogic Exercises of the 17th Century Sufis | 303 |
Rāja Yoga Asceticism and the Rāmānanda Saṃpradāy | 317 |
Contributors | 465 |
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