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- Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga With a New Translation of Haribhadra's Yogadrstisamuccaya by Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Reconciling Yogas explores five approaches to the accomplishment of Yoga from a variety of religious perspectives: Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist. Haribhadra, a prolific Jaina scholar who espoused a universal view of religion, proclaimed that truth can be found in all faiths and sought to elucidate differences between various schools of thought. In Yoga, he discovered a form of spiritual practice common to many faiths and juxtaposed their paths to demonstrate the common goal of liberation. Utilizing the structure of Patañjali’s advanced eightfold path of Yoga in the Yoga Suµtra, Haribhadra formulates his own eight stages of Yoga to which he assigns titles in the feminine gender that echo the names of goddesses. Discussed are the Jaina stages of spiritual ascent and two forms of Yoga for which there is no other account. Also included is a new translation of the Yogadr|s|t|isamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. iii-iv
- CHAPTER TWO: Haribhadra and Pata
- pp. 15-38
- CHAPTER THREE: The Ved
- pp. 39-52
- CHAPTER FOUR: Centrality of the Real
- pp. 53-64
- CHAPTER FIVE: Purity in Pata
- pp. 65-74
- Bibliography
- pp. 163-166
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791486023
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
55136347
Pages
182
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No