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The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a
comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and
contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and
meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation
studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical
settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of
experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga
and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia
Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional
transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date
explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian
subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and
meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique
summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as
well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in
Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the
volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and
meditation studies and combines the best of established research
with attention to emerging directions for future investigation.
This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic
audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a
comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and
contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and
meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation
studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical
settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of
experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga
and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia
Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional
transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date
explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian
subcontinent, new contexts include a case study of yoga and
meditation in the contemporary Tibetan diaspora, and unique
summaries of historical developments in Japan and Latin America as
well as an introduction to the growing academic study of yoga in
Korea. Underpinned by critical and theoretical engagement, the
volume provides an in-depth guide to the history of yoga and
meditation studies and combines the best of established research
with attention to emerging directions for future investigation.
This handbook will be of interest to multidisciplinary academic
audiences from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Karen O'Brien-Kop's introduction to the Yogasutra highlights its
status as a significant work of philosophy. Approaching the
Yogasutra as living philosophy, this book elucidates philosophical
conceptions of yoga, recognises the logical structure the sutras
follow and explains the rules and principles that have sustained
Patañjali’s system of thought for centuries. Moving beyond
standard interpretations of Patañjali's text and commentary as an
aphoristic practice manual, O'Brien-Kop uses branches of philosophy
to read the Yogasutra. Covering reality, self, ethics, language and
knowledge, Patañjali’s philosophies come to the fore. The book
introduces his reasoned positions on dual and nondual
metaphysics, the relationship between mind and body, the qualities
of consciousness, the nature of freedom, and how to live ethically.
Carefully-selected extracts from the primary text are translated
for those unfamiliar with Sanskrit and commentaries run throughout.
A glossary provides definitions of key concepts with useful
translations. Accessible and up-to-date, this introduction broadens
our understanding of Indian philosophical thought and explains why
the Yogasutra deserves to be read alongside Parmenides’ ‘On
Nature’ and Plato’s Phaedo as a classic of world philosophy.
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.
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.
Karen O'Brien-Kop's introduction to the Yogasutra highlights its
status as a significant work of philosophy. Approaching the
Yogasutra as living philosophy, this book elucidates philosophical
conceptions of yoga, recognises the logical structure the sutras
follow and explains the rules and principles that have sustained
Patañjali’s system of thought for centuries. Moving beyond
standard interpretations of Patañjali's text and commentary as an
aphoristic practice manual, O'Brien-Kop uses branches of philosophy
to read the Yogasutra. Covering reality, self, ethics, language and
knowledge, Patañjali’s philosophies come to the fore. The book
introduces his reasoned positions on dual and nondual
metaphysics, the relationship between mind and body, the qualities
of consciousness, the nature of freedom, and how to live ethically.
Carefully-selected extracts from the primary text are translated
for those unfamiliar with Sanskrit and commentaries run throughout.
A glossary provides definitions of key concepts with useful
translations. Accessible and up-to-date, this introduction broadens
our understanding of Indian philosophical thought and explains why
the Yogasutra deserves to be read alongside Parmenides’ ‘On
Nature’ and Plato’s Phaedo as a classic of world philosophy.
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