Yoga, karma, and rebirth : a brief history and philosophy / Stephen H. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Stephen H., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoga.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Summary:

For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India and continue to shape it today. In discussing yoga's fundamental commitments, Phillips explores traditional teachings of hatha yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and tantra, and shows how such core concepts as s

Contents:

Contents; Preface vii; Introduction: Setting an Intention 1; I Theory and Practice 9; 2 Yoga and Metaphysics 41; 3 Karma 79; 4 Rebirth 110; 5 Powers 140; Appendix A: Select Yogic Passages in the Upanishads 163; Appendix B: Yogic Passages in the Bhagavad Gita 177; Appendix C: The Yoga Sutra 205; Appendix D: Selections from (Tantric) Kashmiri Shaivite Texts 227; Appendix E: Selections from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika 241; Glossary 251; Notes 267; Bibliography 331; Index 347

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-345) and index.

ISBN:

9786613629418

9781280599576

128059957X

9780231519472

0231519478

OCLC:

608273472