Samādhi : the numinous and cessative in Indo-Tibetan yoga /

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Author / Creator:Sarbacker, Stuart Ray, 1969-
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 189 pages)
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in religious studies
SUNY series in religious studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141327
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ISBN:142374781X
9781423747819
9780791482810
0791482812
0791465535
9780791465530
0791465543
9780791465547
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-177) and index.
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Summary:Annotation. A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experience have affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yoga from its origins to its contemporary practice. He also integrates sociological and psychological perspectives on religious experience into a larger phenomenological model to address the multifaceted nature of religious experience. Speaking to a broad range of methodological and contextual issues, Sam#x0101; dhi provides numerous insights into the theory and practice of yoga that are relevant to both scholars of religious studies and practitioners of contemporary yoga and meditation traditions.
Other form:Print version: Sarbacker, Stuart Ray, 1969- Samādhi. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005 0791465535

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