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Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism - Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality (Paperback)
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Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism - Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation
practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory.
Karen O'Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the
reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and
imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the
cultural period of the 1st - 5th centuries CE using categorical
markers from South Asian intellectual history. Buddhist traditions
were just as concerned as Hindu traditions with meditative
disciplines of yoga. By exploring the intertextuality of the
Patanjalayogasastra with texts such as Vasubandhu's
Abhidharmakosabhasya and Asanga's Yogacarabhumisastra, this book
highlights and clarifies many ideologically Buddhist concepts and
practices in Patanjala 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.
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