Yogic Perception

Franco, Eli [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness / ed. by Eli Franco in collaboration with Dagmar Eigner. - Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009. - VII, 483 S. - (Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse ; 794) (Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; 65)
ISBN 978-3-7001-6648-1 (Printausgabe)
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Beschreibung
The volume presents seventeen papers by different scholars that examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, questions concerning meditation and yogic perception. The contributions focus on various aspects, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation of body and mind, and health, and bind together the perspectives and approaches of disciplines such as South Asian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, religious studies, philosophy and the history of philosophy, medieval European history, anthropology and psychology. In contrast to recent interdisciplinary studies on meditation that take the natural sciences as their focal point (notably, quantum mechanics and neurophysiology), this volume uses methods established in the social sciences and humanities as tools for understanding meditative traditions, especially those found in Buddhism and Hinduism. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
1. Eli Franco: Introduction. 1
PART I: YOGIC PERCEPTION IN THE SOUTH ASIAN AND TIBETAN TRADITIONS
   2. Larry McCrea: "Just Like Us, Just Like Now": The Tactical Implications of the Mīmāṃsā Rejection of Yogic Perception. 53
   3. John Taber: Yoga and our Epistemic Predicament. 71
   4. Eli Franco: Meditation and Metaphysics: On their Mutual Relationship in South Asian Buddhism. 93
   5. Anne MacDonald: Knowing Nothing: Candrakīrti and Yogic Perception. 133
   6. Vincent Eltschinger: On the Career and the Cognition of Yogins. 169
   7. Dorji Wangchuk: A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. 215
   8. Orna Almogi: The Materiality and Immanence of Gnosis in Some rNying-ma Tantric Sources. 241
   9. Philipp André Maas: The So-called Yoga of Suppression in the Pātañjala Yogaśāstra. 263
   10. Marcus Schmücker: Yogic Perception According to the Later Tradition of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta. 283
   11. Marion Rastelli: Perceiving God and Becoming Like Him: Yogic Perception and Its Implications in the Viṣṇuitic Tradition of Pāñcarātra. 299
PART II: MEDITATION AND ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
   12. Karl Baier: Meditation and Contemplation in High to Late Medieval Europe. 321
   13. Diana Riboli: Shamans and Transformation in Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia. 347
   14. Dagmar Eigner: Transformation of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation. 369
   15. John R. Baker: Psychedelics, Culture, and Consciousness: Insights from the Biocultural Perspective. 389
   16. Shulamith Kreitler: Altered States of Consciousness as Structural Variations of the Cognitive System. 407
   17. Renaud van Quekelberghe: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: The Revival of Indian Meditative Traditions within Modern Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medicine. 435
   18. Michael DelMonte: Empty Thy Mind and Come to Thy Senses: A De-constructive Path to Inner Peace. 449
Contributors. 481

Herausgeber

ELI FRANCO, Professor am Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig. Profil.

Quellen: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Online edition; Mitteilung von E. Franco in der Mailing-Liste Indology, 19. Aug. 2009.