Geoffrey Samuel

The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780521873512
• ISBN-10: 0521873517
• Artikelnr.: 23027434

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Samuel is Professorial Fellow at the School of Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University. His publications include Mind, Body and Culture: Anthropology and the Biological Interface (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Stories and sources
Part I. Meditation and Yoga: 3. The second urbanisation of South Asia
4. Two worlds and their interactions
5. Religion in the early states
6. The origins of the Buddhist and Jain orders
7. The Brahmanical alternative
8. Interlude: asceticism and celibacy in Indic religions
Part II. Tantra: 9. The classical synthesis
10. Tantra and the wild goddesses
11. Subtle bodies, longevity and internal alchemy
12. Tantra and the state
13. The later history of yoga and tantra
14. Postlude.