Reconciling Yogas

Reconciling Yogas Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga

Hardback (06 Nov 2003) | English,Sanskrit

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Publisher's Synopsis

Reconciling Yogas explores five approaches to the accomplishment of Yoga from a variety of religious perspectives: Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist. Haribhadra, a prolific Jaina scholar who espoused a universal view of religion, proclaimed that truth can be found in all faiths and sought to elucidate differences between various schools of thought. In Yoga, he discovered a form of spiritual practice common to many faiths and juxtaposed their paths to demonstrate the common goal of liberation. Utilizing the structure of Patañjali's advanced eightfold path of Yoga in the Yoga Sutra, Haribhadra formulates his own eight stages of Yoga to which he assigns titles in the feminine gender that echo the names of goddesses. Discussed are the Jaina stages of spiritual ascent and two forms of Yoga for which there is no other account. Also included is a new translation of the Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya, an eighth-century text by Haribhadra.

Book information

ISBN: 9780791458990
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 181.044
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English,Sanskrit
Number of pages: 170
Weight: 363g
Height: 229mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 19mm