UID:
almafu_9959242400502883
Format:
1 online resource (219 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-79605-X
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1-280-07251-2
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1-135-79606-8
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0-203-42302-X
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0-203-42541-3
Content:
The essays cover the historical emergence of the classical system, a careful examination of key elements, character and relevance of that system and a glimpse of some of the tradition's many effects in later Indian religious history.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Classical foundations; Yoga in the Mahabharata; Practice makes perfect: the role of practice (abhyasa) in Patajala yoga; The integration of spirit (purua) and matter (prakti) in the Yoga Stra; Dueling with dualism: revisioning the paradox of purua and prakti; Yoga and the luminous; The expanding tradition; Yoga in akaran Advaita Vedanta: a reappraisal
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Losing one's mind and becoming enlightened: some remarks on the concept of yoga in vetambara Jainism and its relation to the Nath Siddha traditionYoga in early Hindu tantra; Metaphoric worlds and yoga in the Vaiava Sahajiya Tantric traditions of medieval Bengal; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-60020-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7007-1288-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203423028
