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Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- Editorial board
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- A note on terms and translations
- Part I Introduction to yoga and meditation studies
- 1 Reframing yoga and meditation studies
- Introduction
- Defining meditation and yoga: the challenges
- Shifting discussions and emerging areas of research
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 2 Decolonising yoga
- Why decolonise?
- Knowledge, body, empire
- Travel, positionality and power
- Nationalism, decolonisation, recolonisation
- Conclusion: towards yoga as critique
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3 Meditation in contemporary contexts: Current discussions
- Introduction
- Challenges of definition
- Historical and comparative approaches
- Research positions
- Critical discourses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 4 The scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy
- Introduction
- Varieties of scholar-practitioner
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 5 Neoliberal yoga
- Introduction
- Selling yoga
- Neoliberal yoga
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part II History of yoga and meditation in South Asia
- 6 How yoga became yoga: Yoga and meditation up to the classical period
- Introduction
- Pre-classical period
- Prehistoric: the Indus Valley Civilization
- Early history: yoga in the Vedas
- What was the praxis of the Buddha called?
- Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita: sam.khya and yoga (theory and practice)
- The terms yogavacara and yogacara in Buddhist sources
- Hiran.yagarbha's Yogasastra
- Pasupatayoga
- Classical period
- The Patañjalayogasastra
- Classical period after the Patañjalayogasastra
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 7 Buddhist meditation in South Asia: An overview
- Introduction
- Key terms
- Meditation subjects
- Main meditative techniques and paths of spiritual cultivation
- Early and mainstream Buddhism
- Tranquillity and insight
- The path of spiritual cultivation in Sarvastivada Buddhism
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Emptiness and compassion
- The path of spiritual cultivation in Yogacara Buddhism
- Tantric Buddhism
- Visualisations and energy control
- The path of spiritual cultivation in the noble lineage of the esoteric community
- In lieu of conclusion
- Original sources and abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 8 Tantric transformations of yoga: Kun.d.alini in the ninth to tenth century
- Introduction
- Ṣaṭka 1
- Ṣaṭka 2
- Ṣaṭka 3
- Ṣaṭka 4
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 9 Early haṭhayoga
- Introduction
- Textual criticism and haṭhayoga
- Precursors of haṭhayoga
- Early haṭha's textual corpus
- Goals of haṭhayoga
- Haṭhayoga after the Haṭhapradipika
- Haṭhayoga in contemporary ascetic culture
- Haṭhayoga in modern global yoga
- Notes
- Bibliography