Knut A. Jacobsen

Yoga in Modern Hinduism (eBook, ePUB)

Hariharananda Ara¿ya and Sa¿khyayoga

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharananda Aräya (1869-1947) and the Kapil Mäh tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this tradition's connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogasutra in modern Hinduism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351624749
• Artikelnr.: 50402742

Autorenporträt

Knut A. Jacobsen is professor in the study of religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research focuses on Yoga, Säkhya, and Hindu conceptions and rituals of space and time. He is the editor in chief of the six volumes Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2009-2015) and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. S
khya, Yoga and S
khyayoga 2. Encounters with a living S
khyayoga tradition 3. Kapila as the originator of Yoga 4. The rebirth of Yoga and the emergence of the bhadralok yogin 5. Gurus, book printing and the S
khyayoga lineage 6. Textual tradition of the K
pil Math institution 7. S
khyayoga meditation instructions of the K
pil Mäh tradition 8. Monastic life and recitation of Sanskrit stotras 9. The material religion of S
khyayoga 10. The K
pil Mäh tradition and modern scholarship on Yoga Conclusion