Reconciling Yogas
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Reconciling Yogas

Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga With a New Translation of Haribhadra's Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey

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Reconciling Yogas

Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga With a New Translation of Haribhadra's Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey

About this book

Presents the various religious approaches to Yoga described by Haribhadra, the eighth-century sage, who held a universal view of religion. Includes a translation of his original text on Yoga.

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 PataƱjali's advanced eightfold path of Yoga in the Yoga Sutra, 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 Yogad???isamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra's Colelction of Views on Yoga
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. The Life Story of Haribhadra
  7. 2. Haribhadra and Patanjali
  8. 3. The Vedantin Yoga of Bhagavaddatta and the Buddhist Yoga of Bhaskara
  9. 4. Centrality of the Real
  10. 5. Purity in Patanjali and Haribhadra
  11. 6. Haribhadra’s Critique of Tantric Yoga
  12. 7. Haribhadra’s Sociology of Yoga and Its Culmination
  13. Yogadrstisamuccaya (A Collection of Views on Yoga): Haribhadra
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover