Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth

Phillips, Stephen
Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth : a brief history and philosophy / Stephen Phillips. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2009. - viii, 358 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-231-14484-1
US$ 79,50 / £ 47,00 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-231-14485-8
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Beschreibung
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 self-monitoring consciousness, karma, nonharmfulness (ahimsa), reincarnation, and the powers of consciousness relate to modern practice. He outlines values implicit in bhakti yoga and the tantric yoga of beauty and art and explains the occult psychologies of koshas, skandhas, and chakras. His book incorporates original translations from the early Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutra (the entire text), the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and seminal tantric writings of the tenth-century Kashmiri Shaivite, Abhinava Gupta. A glossary defining more than three hundred technical terms and an extensive bibliography offer further help to nonscholars. A remarkable exploration of yoga's conceptual legacy, Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth crystallizes ideas about self and reality that unite the many incarnations of yoga. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface
Introduction: Setting an Intention
1. Theory and Practice
2. Yoga and Metaphysics
3. Karma
4. Rebirth
5. Powers
Appendix A. Select Yogic Passages from the Early Upanishads
Appendix B. Yogic Passages in the Bhagavad Gita
Appendix C. The Yoga Sutra
Appendix D. Selections from (Tantric) Kashmiri Shaivite Texts
Appendix E. Selections from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Autor
Stephen Phillips is professor of philosophy and Asian studies at the University of Texas at Austin and has been visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is the author of six books, including Epistemology of Perception: Gangesa's Tattvacintamani, Jewel of Reflection on the Truth About Knowledge, and numerous papers, many featuring first-time translations of late classical Sanskrit philosophic texts. Faculty profile, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Dept. of Philosophy; Homepage.

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