Yoga Powers

Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21214-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 510 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

A neglected topic in the research on yoga and meditation traditions, the extraordinary capacities called yoga powers are at the core of the religious imagination in the history of religions in South Asia. Yoga powers explained the divine, the highest gods were thought of as great yogins, and since major religious traditions considered their attainment as an inevitable part of the salvific process the textual traditions had to provide rational analyses of the powers. The essays of the book provide a number of new insights in the yoga powers and their history, position and function in the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions, in classical Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Tantra and aiva textual traditions, in South Asian medieval and modern hagographies, and in some contemporary yoga traditions.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in religions in South Asia, Yoga , the history of Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina traditions, as well as Indologists and historians of religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobsen, Knut A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
A Note on Transliteration
Abbreviations

Introduction: Yoga Powers and Religious Traditions - Knut A. Jacobsen
chapter 1: Angelika Malinar, Yoga powers in the Mahabharata
chapter 2: David Gordon White, How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?
chapter 3: Brad Clough, The Cultivation of Yogic Powers in the P¯a¯li Path Manuals of Therava¯da Buddhism
chapter 4: David V. Fiordalis, The Wondrous Display of Superhuman Power in the Vimalakirtinirdesa: Miracle or Marvel?
chapter 5: Ryan Richard Overbey, On the Appearance of Siddhis in Chinese Buddhist Texts
chapter 6: Kristi Wiley, Supernatural Powers and Their Attainment in Jainism
chapter 7: Stuart Ray Sarbacker, Power and Meaning in the Yogasutra of Patañjali
chapter 8: Christopher Key Chapple, Siddhis in the Yogasutra
chapter 9: Lloyd W. Pflueger, Holding On and Letting Go: The In and Out of Powers in Classical Yoga
chapter 10: Somadeva Vasudeva, Powers and Identities: Yoga Powers and the Tantric Saiva Traditions
chapter 11: Sthaneshwar Timalsina, Liberation and Immortality: Bhusunda’s Yoga of Prana in the Yogavasistha
chapter 12: James Mallinson, Siddhi and Mahasiddhi in Early Hathayoga
chapter 13: Patton Burchett, My Miracle Trumps Your Magic: Encounters with Yogis in Sufi and Bhakti Hagiograpical Literature
chapter 14: Antonio Rigopoulos, Sai Baba of Sirdi and Yoga Powers
chapter 15: Ramdas Lamb, Yogic Powers and the Ramananda Sampraday
chapter 16: Knut A. Jacobsen, Yoga Powers in a Contemporary Samkhya-Yoga Tradition
chapter 17: Jeffery J. Kripal, The Evolving Siddhi: Yoga and Tantra in the Human Potential Movement and Beyond

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jacobsen, Knut A
Knut A. Jacobsen, Ph.D. (1994) is Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author and editor of numerous books on religions in South Asia, and editor-in-chief of the five-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2009-2013).