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Yoga Powers : Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration.
The book offers a number of new insights in the history of yoga powers in the South Asian religious traditions, analyzes the position of the powers in the salvific process and in conceptions of divinity, and explores the rational explanations of the powers provided by the traditions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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| Colección: | Brill's Indological library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; A Note on Transliteration; List of Abbreviations; introduction; Yoga Powers and Religious Traditions; Knut A. Jacobsen; Chapter one; Yoga powers in the Mahābhārata; Angelika Malinar; Chapter two; How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?; David Gordon White; Chapter three; The Cultivation of Yogic Powers in the Pāli Path Manuals of Theravāda Buddhism; Brad Clough; Chapter four; The Wondrous Display of Superhuman Power in the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa: Miracle or Marvel?; David V. Fiordalis; Chapter five; On the Appearance of Siddhis in Chinese Buddhist Texts.
- Ryan Richard OverbeyChapter six; Supernatural Powers and Their Attainment in Jainism; Kristi L. Wiley; Chapter seven; Power and Meaning in the Yogasūtra of Patañjali; Stuart Ray Sarbacker; Chapter eight; Siddhis in the Yogasūtra; Christopher Key Chapple; Chapter nine; Holding On and Letting Go: The In and Out of Powers in Classical Yoga.; Lloyd W. Pflueger; Chapter ten; Powers and Identities: Yoga Powers and the Tantric Śaiva Traditions; Somadeva Vasudeva; Chapter eleven; Liberation and Immortality: Bhuśuṇḍa's Yoga of Prāṇa in the Yogavāsiṣṭha; Sthaneshwar Timalsina; Chapter twelve.
- Siddhi and Mahāsiddhi in Early HaṭhayogaJames Mallinson; Chapter thirteen; My Miracle Trumps Your Magic: Encounters with Yogīs in Sufi and Bhakti Hagiograpical Literature; Patton Burchett; Chapter fourteen; Sāī Bābā of Śirḍī and Yoga Powers; Antonio Rigopoulos; Chapter fifteen; Yogic Powers and the Rāmānanda Sampradāy; Ramdas Lamb; Chapter SIXTEEN; Yoga Powers in a Contemporary Sāṃkhya-Yoga Tradition; Knut A. Jacobsen; Chapter seventeen; The Evolving Siddhi: Yoga and Tantra in the Human Potential Movement and Beyond; Jeffrey J. Kripal; Contributors; Index.