Tracing the path of Yoga : the history and philosophy of Indian mind-body discipline / Stuart Ray Sarbacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarbacker, Stuart Ray, 1969- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoga--History.

Yoga.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 437 pages)

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Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Stuart Ray Sarbacker is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Oregon State University. He is the author of Samādhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga, also published by SUNY Press, and (with Kevin Kimple) The Eight Limbs of Yoga: A Handbook for Living Yoga Philosophy

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Pronunciation guide for Sanskrit terms

Introduction: The history and philosophy of Yoga

Chapter 1. Defining Yoga

Chapter 2. The prehistory of Yoga: The Indus Civilization and the Vedic tradition

Chapter 3. Brāhmaṇical asceticism and Śramaṇa traditions

Chapter 4. The classical Hindu model of Yoga: Pātañjala Yoga and Aṣṭāṅgayoga

Chapter 5. Hindu epic, purāṇic, and scholastic representations of Yoga

Chapter 6. Classical Śramaṇa traditions of Yoga

Chapter 7. The medieval transformation of Yoga: Bhakti, Tantra, and Haṭhayoga

Chapter 8. Modern Yoga traditions

Notes

Works cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 14, 2021)

Other Format:

Print version: Sarbacker, Stuart Ray. Tracing the Path of Yoga.

ISBN:

9781438481234

1438481233

Publisher Number:

40030309684

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