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
Christopher Key Chapple author John Thomas Casey translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Published:6th Nov '03
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Explores 5 approaches to the accomplishment of Yoga from a variety of religious perspectives. Utilizing the structure of Pantanjali's advanced eightfold path of Yoga in the Yoga Sutra, Haribhadra formulates his own eight stages.
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 Patañjali'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 Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.
ISBN: 9780791459003
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 254g
182 pages