A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.
Author(s): Christopher Chapple
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: 47937
Pages: 320
YOGA AND THE LUMINOUS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 16
1. The Yoga Tradition......Page 18
I. The Practice of Yoga......Page 34
2. Samkhya Philosophy and Yoga Practice......Page 36
3. Precepts and Vows in Yoga and Jainism......Page 48
4. Imitation of Animals in Yoga Tradition......Page 66
5. Patañjali on Meditation......Page 78
II. Yoga and Liberation......Page 86
6. Luminosity and Yoga......Page 88
7. Living Liberation in Samkhya and Yoga......Page 100
III. Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra......Page 118
8. Approaching the Yoga Sutra......Page 120
9. The Yoga Sutra of Patañjali......Page 132
10. Translation Methodology and Grammatical Analysis......Page 156
11. “Samadhi pada”......Page 160
12. “Sadhana pada”......Page 180
13. “Vibhuti pada”......Page 200
14. “Kaivalya pada”......Page 220
IV. Interpreting Yoga......Page 234
15. Reading Patañjali without Vyasa......Page 236
16. The Use of the Feminine Gender in Patañjali’s Description of Yogic Practices......Page 254
17. Contemporary Expressions of Yoga......Page 266
NOTES......Page 278
REFERENCES......Page 296
INDEX OF SANSKRIT TERMS......Page 304
B......Page 312
D......Page 313
I......Page 314
M......Page 315
S......Page 316
Z......Page 318
Back Cover......Page 320
