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Samādhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga
Author Sarbacker, Stuart
Date2006.06
Pages202
PublisherState University of New York Press
Publisher Url http://www.sunypress.edu/
LocationAlbany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteStuart Ray Sarbacker is Lecturer in Religion at Northwestern University.
KeywordBuddhism; Hindu Studies; Religion
AbstractExplores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.

A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experience have affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yoga from its origins to its contemporary practice. He also integrates sociological and psychological perspectives on religious experience into a larger phenomenological model to address the multifaceted nature of religious experience. Speaking to a broad range of methodological and contextual issues, Samadhi provides numerous insights into the theory and practice of yoga that are relevant to both scholars of religious studies and practitioners of contemporary yoga and meditation traditions.
Table of contentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Method and the Study of Meditation
1. Sources and Definitions
2. Reinterpreting Religious Experience
3. Yoga, Shamanism, and Buddhism: A New Phenomenology
4. The Debate over Dialogue: Classical Yoga and Buddhism in Comparison
5. Traditions in Transition: Meditative Concepts in the Development of Tantric Sādhana
Conclusion
Meditation, Phenomenology, and the Concept of Samādhi
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN9780791465530 (hc)
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Created date2015.08.27
Modified date2016.03.01



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