Franco Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-7001-6719-8
Verlag: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 794, 483 Seiten, PDF

Reihe: Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franco, Eli

Über Autor(innen)

Franco, Eli
holds the Chair of Indology at Leipzig University and is the director of its Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies