Rethinking 'classical yoga' and Buddhism : meditation, metaphors and materiality / Karen O'Brien-Kop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien-Kop, Karen, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in religious studies.

Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoga--Buddhism.

Yoga.

Yoga--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2021]

Summary:

"This book revisits the early systemic formation of what we now call 'yoga' in South Asia. Karen O'Brien-Kop develops an alternative way of describing and analysing the history of yoga in South Asia that decentres the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the cultural period of the 1st - 5th centuries CE using categorical markers from Indic intellectual history. Buddhist traditions were just as concerned as Hindu traditions with meditative disciplines of yoga. By exploring the intertextuality of the Patañjalayogasastra with texts such as Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabha?ya and Asa?ga's Yogacarabhumisastra, this book highlights and clarifies many ideologically Buddhist concepts and practices in Patañjala yoga. Karen O'Brien-Kop demonstrates that 'classical yoga' was co-constructed systemically by both Hindu and Buddhist thinkers who were drawing on the same conceptual metaphors of the period. This analysis demystifies early yoga-meditation as a timeless 'classical' practice and locates it in a specific material context of agrarian and urban economies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Note on translation and transliteration

Introduction 'Classical yoga' and Buddhism: Debates, dialogue and intertextuality

1 Mokṣa, metaphors and materiality: Concepts and contexts of 'liberation'

2 Seeds of bondage and freedom: Eliminating the afflictions (klesas) in the Patañjalayogasastra and the Abhid

3 The 'other' yoga sastra: The Yogacarabhumisastra

4 Patañjala yoga and yogacara: The cultivation of the counterstate

5 Who put the classical in 'classical yoga'? The inadequacy of an analytical category

Conclusion: Rethinking 'classical yoga' - a categorical paradigm shift?

Appendix 1 A note on the title Patañjalayogasastra

Appendix 2 Classical Indian metaphor theory

Appendix 3 Structure of the Yogacarabhumisastra

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350230019

1350230014

9781350230002

1350230006