Theory And Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James LarsonGerald James Larson, Knut 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, S khya, 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
Person Purity and Power in the Yogasùtra | 29 |
Revisiting the Jìvanmukti Question in Sàákhya in | 61 |
Crossexamining the Notion of Self | 75 |
It Aint Necessarily So | 99 |
The SàákhyaYoga Influence on rìvaißava Philosophy | 129 |
An Analysis | 143 |
On Subtle Knowledge and | 181 |
Meaning and Visualization in Tantric | 213 |
Ràja Yoga Asceticism and the Ràmànanda Saápradày Ramdas Lamb | 317 |
A SàákhyaYoga Renaissance in Bengal | 333 |
Maternal Devotion as a Form | 351 |
Jungs Depth Psychology and Yoga Sàdhana | 385 |
Some Reflections from the Heartland | 409 |
Preliminary Remarks | 425 |
A Personal | 445 |
Appointments and Publications | 449 |
The Gurugìtà or Song of the Master as Incorporated | 237 |
The Sàákhya Sage Kapila and Kashmiri Vißu Images Pratapaditya Pal | 293 |
Contributors Index 465 | 465 |
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