Philosophie; Altered States of Consciousness; Asiatische Religionswissenschaft; Meditation; Yogic Perception
摘要
The volume presents seventeen papers by different scholars that examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, questions concerning meditation and yogic perception. The contributions focus on various aspects, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation of body and mind, and health, and bind together the perspectives and approaches of disciplines such as South Asian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, religious studies, philosophy and the history of philosophy, medieval European history, anthropology and psychology. In contrast to recent interdisciplinary studies on meditation that take the natural sciences as their focal point (notably, quantum mechanics and neurophysiology), this volume uses methods established in the social sciences and humanities as tools for understanding meditative traditions, especially those found in Buddhism and Hinduism.
目次
Introduction 1
Part I: Yogic Perception in the South Asian and Tibetan Traditions “Just Like Us, Just Like Now”: The Tactical Implications of the Mīmāṃsā Rejection of Yogic Perception 55 John Taber Yoga and our Epistemic Predicament 71 Meditation and Metaphysics: On their Mutual Relationship in South Asian Buddhism 93 Knowing Nothing: Candrakīrti and Yogic Perception 133 On the Career and the Cognition of Yogins 169 A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism 215 The Materiality and Immanence of Gnosis in Some rNying-ma Tantric Sources 241 The So-called Yoga of Suppression in the Pātañjala Yogaśāstra 263 Yogic Perception According to the Later Tradition of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta 283 Perceiving God and Becoming Like Him: Yogic Perception and Its Implications in the Viṣṇuitic Tradition of Pāñcarātra 299
Part II: Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Meditation and Contemplation in High to Late Medieval Europe 321 Shamans and Transformation in Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia 347 Transformation of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation 369 Psychedelics, Culture, and Consciousness: Insights from the Biocultural Perspective 389 Altered States of Consciousness as Structural Variations of the Cognitive System 407 Renaud van Quekelberghe Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: The Revival of Indian Meditative Traditions within Modern Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medicine 435 Michael DelMonte Empty Thy Mind and Come to Thy Senses: A De-constructive Path to Inner Peace 449 Contributors 481
