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Yoga and the luminous : Patañjali's spiritual path to freedom /
"In Yoga and the Luminous, a book that emerges from more than thirty years of practice, study, and reflection, Christopher Key Chapple addresses the need for an accessible explanation of Yoga's difficult philosophy and its applications in daily life. Yoga practice takes an individual on an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Sanskrit |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Yoga tradition
- I: The practice of Yoga
- Sāṃkhya philosophy and Yoga practice
- Precepts and vows in Yoga and Jainism
- Imitation of animals in Yoga tradition: taming the sacred wild through Āsana practice
- Patañjali on meditation: undoing the thinking self
- II: Yoga and liberation
- Luminosity and Yoga
- Living liberation in Sāṃkhya and Yoga
- III: Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra
- Approaching the Yoga Sūtra
- The Yoga Sūtra of Patãnjali: continuous text and translation
- Translation methodology and grammatical analysis
- "Samādhi pāda"
- "Sādhana pāda"
- "Vibhūti pāda"
- "Kaivalya pāda"
- IV: Interpreting Yoga
- Reading Patañjali without Vyāsa: a critique of four Yoga Sūtra passages
- The use of the feminine gender in Patañjali's description of Yogic practices
- Contemporary expressions of Yoga.