Routledge handbook of yoga and meditation studies /
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 g...
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London ; New York, New York :
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[2021]
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- Editorial board
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- A note on terms and translations
- Part I Introduction to yoga and meditation studies
- 1 Reframing yoga and meditation studies
- Introduction
- Defining meditation and yoga: the challenges
- Shifting discussions and emerging areas of research
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 2 Decolonising yoga
- Why decolonise?
- Knowledge, body, empire
- Travel, positionality and power
- Nationalism, decolonisation, recolonisation
- Conclusion: towards yoga as critique
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3 Meditation in contemporary contexts: Current discussions
- Introduction
- Challenges of definition
- Historical and comparative approaches
- Research positions
- Critical discourses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 4 The scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy
- Introduction
- Varieties of scholar-practitioner
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 5 Neoliberal yoga
- Introduction
- Selling yoga
- Neoliberal yoga
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part II History of yoga and meditation in South Asia
- 6 How yoga became yoga: Yoga and meditation up to the classical period
- Introduction
- Pre-classical period
- Prehistoric: the Indus Valley Civilization
- Early history: yoga in the Vedas
- What was the praxis of the Buddha called?
- Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita: sam.khya and yoga (theory and practice)
- The terms yogavacara and yogacara in Buddhist sources
- Hiran.yagarbha's Yogasastra
- Pasupatayoga
- Classical period
- The Patañjalayogasastra
- Classical period after the Patañjalayogasastra
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 7 Buddhist meditation in South Asia: An overview
- Introduction
- Key terms.
- Meditation subjects
- Main meditative techniques and paths of spiritual cultivation
- Early and mainstream Buddhism
- Tranquillity and insight
- The path of spiritual cultivation in Sarvastivada Buddhism
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Emptiness and compassion
- The path of spiritual cultivation in Yogacara Buddhism
- Tantric Buddhism
- Visualisations and energy control
- The path of spiritual cultivation in the noble lineage of the esoteric community
- In lieu of conclusion
- Original sources and abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 8 Tantric transformations of yoga: Kun.d.alini in the ninth to tenth century
- Introduction
- Ṣaṭka 1
- Ṣaṭka 2
- Ṣaṭka 3
- Ṣaṭka 4
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 9 Early haṭhayoga
- Introduction
- Textual criticism and haṭhayoga
- Precursors of haṭhayoga
- Early haṭha's textual corpus
- Goals of haṭhayoga
- Haṭhayoga after the Haṭhapradipika
- Haṭhayoga in contemporary ascetic culture
- Haṭhayoga in modern global yoga
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 10 Yoga and meditation in modern esoteric traditions
- Introduction
- Mesmerism
- Spiritualism and early occultism
- The Theosophical Society
- Later Occultism and New Thought
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 11 Hindu ascetics and the political in contemporary India
- Introduction
- The social involvement of modern Hindu ascetics
- Contemporary configurations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 12 Yoga and meditation as a health intervention
- Introduction
- Yoga and meditation in AYUSH
- Historical entanglements of yoga, meditation and health
- Contemporary experiences of yogic health interventions in India
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part III Doctrinal perspectives
- 13 Yoga and meditation in the Jain tradition
- Introduction
- The term yoga in early Jain texts.
- Bhāvanā-yoga
- Dhyāna-yoga
- Mahāvīra's meditation
- The four dhyānas
- The two meditations: worldly (saṃsārika) psychological states
- Ārtta- dhyāna (anguished meditation)
- Raudra-dhyāna (wrathful meditation)
- The two meditations: liberating psychological states
- Dharma-dhyāna (virtuous meditation)
- Śukla-dhyāna (pure meditation)
- Digambara meditation on the soul
- Contemplation (anuprekṣā)
- Āsana
- Medieval Jain yoga
- Ācārya Haribhadra
- Ācārya Śubhacandra
- Ācārya Hemacandra
- Modern Jain yoga
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 14 Daoist meditation
- Introduction
- On meditation and so-called 'Taoist yoga'
- The Daoist tradition and types of Daoist meditation
- 'Guarding the One'
- Visualising the dipper
- Forming the elixir
- Sitting in the modern Daoist tradition
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 15 Islam, yoga and meditation
- Introduction: the issue of permissibility
- Muslim engagement with yoga
- When all breaths are not commensurable: `ilm-i dam and zikr, svarodaya and prāṇāyāma
- Meditation
- Contemporary issues
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 16 Sikhi(sm): Yoga and meditation
- Introduction
- Medieval background: Indian renaissance and Gur-Sikh Enlightenment
- Guru Granth Sahib's critique of yoga and meditation
- Aasan (spiritual yoga)
- True yoga as sahaj-jog
- Takhat (political yoga): raaj-jog
- Splitting raaj-jog in the conversion to western modernity
- Contemporary scene: Sikh yoga and meditation movements
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 17 Christianity: Classical, modern and postmodern forms of contemplation
- Introduction
- Contemplation within the context of Christian prayer
- Classics of Christian contemplation
- John Cassian
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- Recollection: St. Teresa of Avila.
- Recollection: Evelyn Underhill
- Eastern Orthodox recollection: the Jesus Prayer
- Popular contemporary Christian contemplation
- Centering Prayer
- Christian Meditation
- Postmodern Christian contemplation: non-Christian influences and religious hybridity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 18 Secular discourse as a legitimating strategy for mindfulness meditation
- Introduction
- Research method
- Science, scientism and neuroscientism
- Academisation as other sources of legitimacy
- Rhetoric of universality
- Buddhist discourse of suffering
- Ethics of rebranding: participants' position
- Mental health and resilience
- OMC history and mission statement
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part IV Global and regional transmissions
- 19 Yoga and meditation traditions in insular Southeast Asia
- Introduction
- The earliest literary evidence: the old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa
- Old Javanese Śaiva sources on aṣṭāṅgayoga and ṣaḍaṅgayoga
- Old Javanese Buddhist sources on yoga
- Classical Malay literature from Sumatra
- Yoga in modern Bali
- Modern Javanese mystical movements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 20 Yoga in Tibet
- Introduction: yoga comes to Tibet
- Buddhist philosophy as the foundation of tantra and yoga
- Tibetan yoga in the three main canons
- Yoga as a doxographical category: the four-fold and six-fold classes of tantra
- The Ancient tradition: six classes of tantra culminating in 'Supreme Yoga'
- The New orders of Tibetan Buddhism and the four classes of tantra
- Naljor in ancillary branch systems
- Kālacakra's six yogas
- Mahāmudrā's four yogas
- Nāropa's six doctrines
- Niguma's six dharmas
- Tibetan yogis
- Milarepa, Tibet's most famous yogi
- Case study: monastic yogins at Namdroling Monastery and Nunnery in South India
- The annual retreats
- It begins with empowerment
- Motivation setting.
- The yoga practice
- The sequences
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 21 The political history of meditation and yoga in Japan
- Introduction
- Buddhism and meditation from the ancient to medieval periods
- Transformations in the early modern era
- Confucianism and the imperial family line in Japan
- Kokugaku and Daoism
- Meditation and yoga in the modern period
- Psychologisation and universalisation of meditation
- Political theology on meditation
- Postmodern meditation and yoga
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 22 Yoga and meditation in Korea
- Introduction
- Traditions of practice and meditation in Korea
- Confucianism in Korea
- Daoism in Korea
- Buddhism in Korea
- Won Buddhism as a new religion in Korea
- Yoga in Korea
- Current status of academic study of yoga in Korea
- Bibliography
- 23 Yoga in Latin America: A critical overview
- Introduction
- Understandings of 'yoga'
- Forerunners and diffusors
- Typologies 1: yoga, meditation and bodywork
- Typologies 2: Latin American yoga
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 24 Anglophone yoga and meditation outside of India
- Introduction
- Early modern and nineteenth-century networks and translations
- The Theosophical Society
- Early twentieth-century publications
- Anglophone physical culture and yoga
- Immigration, English and empire
- Adult education and mass media
- Movement of gurus and the counter-culture
- The arrival of scientific meditation
- Early 1980s to the present
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 25 The yogic body in global transmission
- Introduction
- Context and terms
- Yogic body
- Cakras
- Kuṇḍalinī and kuṇḍalinī yoga
- Behind the veil
- Public kuṇḍalinī
- Concluding remarks
- Note
- Bibliography
- Part V Disciplinary framings
- 26 Philology and digital humanities
- Introduction.