Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies.
Newcombe, Suzanne.
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (565 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Editorial board -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- A note on terms and translations -- Part I Introduction to yoga and meditation studies -- 1 Reframing yoga and meditation studies -- Introduction -- Defining meditation and yoga: the challenges -- Shifting discussions and emerging areas of research -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Decolonising yoga -- Why decolonise? -- Knowledge, body, empire -- Travel, positionality and power -- Nationalism, decolonisation, recolonisation -- Conclusion: towards yoga as critique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Meditation in contemporary contexts: Current discussions -- Introduction -- Challenges of definition -- Historical and comparative approaches -- Research positions -- Critical discourses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy -- Introduction -- Varieties of scholar-practitioner -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Neoliberal yoga -- Introduction -- Selling yoga -- Neoliberal yoga -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II History of yoga and meditation in South Asia -- 6 How yoga became yoga: Yoga and meditation up to the classical period -- Introduction -- Pre-classical period -- Prehistoric: the Indus Valley Civilization -- Early history: yoga in the Vedas -- What was the praxis of the Buddha called? -- Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita: sam.khya and yoga (theory and practice) -- The terms yogavacara and yogacara in Buddhist sources -- Hiran.yagarbha's Yogasastra -- Pasupatayoga -- Classical period -- The Patañjalayogasastra -- Classical period after the Patañjalayogasastra -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Buddhist meditation in South Asia: An overview -- Introduction -- Key terms. Meditation subjects -- Main meditative techniques and paths of spiritual cultivation -- Early and mainstream Buddhism -- Tranquillity and insight -- The path of spiritual cultivation in Sarvastivada Buddhism -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Emptiness and compassion -- The path of spiritual cultivation in Yogacara Buddhism -- Tantric Buddhism -- Visualisations and energy control -- The path of spiritual cultivation in the noble lineage of the esoteric community -- In lieu of conclusion -- Original sources and abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Tantric transformations of yoga: Kun.d.alini in the ninth to tenth century -- Introduction -- Ṣaṭka 1 -- Ṣaṭka 2 -- Ṣaṭka 3 -- Ṣaṭka 4 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Early haṭhayoga -- Introduction -- Textual criticism and haṭhayoga -- Precursors of haṭhayoga -- Early haṭha's textual corpus -- Goals of haṭhayoga -- Haṭhayoga after the Haṭhapradipika -- Haṭhayoga in contemporary ascetic culture -- Haṭhayoga in modern global yoga -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Yoga and meditation in modern esoteric traditions -- Introduction -- Mesmerism -- Spiritualism and early occultism -- The Theosophical Society -- Later Occultism and New Thought -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 11 Hindu ascetics and the political in contemporary India -- Introduction -- The social involvement of modern Hindu ascetics -- Contemporary configurations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 Yoga and meditation as a health intervention -- Introduction -- Yoga and meditation in AYUSH -- Historical entanglements of yoga, meditation and health -- Contemporary experiences of yogic health interventions in India -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Doctrinal perspectives -- 13 Yoga and meditation in the Jain tradition -- Introduction -- The term yoga in early Jain texts. Bhāvanā-yoga -- Dhyāna-yoga -- Mahāvīra's meditation -- The four dhyānas -- The two meditations: worldly (saṃsārika) psychological states -- Ārtta- dhyāna (anguished meditation) -- Raudra-dhyāna (wrathful meditation) -- The two meditations: liberating psychological states -- Dharma-dhyāna (virtuous meditation) -- Śukla-dhyāna (pure meditation) -- Digambara meditation on the soul -- Contemplation (anuprekṣā) -- Āsana -- Medieval Jain yoga -- Ācārya Haribhadra -- Ācārya Śubhacandra -- Ācārya Hemacandra -- Modern Jain yoga -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14 Daoist meditation -- Introduction -- On meditation and so-called 'Taoist yoga' -- The Daoist tradition and types of Daoist meditation -- 'Guarding the One' -- Visualising the dipper -- Forming the elixir -- Sitting in the modern Daoist tradition -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15 Islam, yoga and meditation -- Introduction: the issue of permissibility -- Muslim engagement with yoga -- When all breaths are not commensurable: `ilm-i dam and zikr, svarodaya and prāṇāyāma -- Meditation -- Contemporary issues -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 16 Sikhi(sm): Yoga and meditation -- Introduction -- Medieval background: Indian renaissance and Gur-Sikh Enlightenment -- Guru Granth Sahib's critique of yoga and meditation -- Aasan (spiritual yoga) -- True yoga as sahaj-jog -- Takhat (political yoga): raaj-jog -- Splitting raaj-jog in the conversion to western modernity -- Contemporary scene: Sikh yoga and meditation movements -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 17 Christianity: Classical, modern and postmodern forms of contemplation -- Introduction -- Contemplation within the context of Christian prayer -- Classics of Christian contemplation -- John Cassian -- The Cloud of Unknowing -- Recollection: St. Teresa of Avila. Recollection: Evelyn Underhill -- Eastern Orthodox recollection: the Jesus Prayer -- Popular contemporary Christian contemplation -- Centering Prayer -- Christian Meditation -- Postmodern Christian contemplation: non-Christian influences and religious hybridity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 18 Secular discourse as a legitimating strategy for mindfulness meditation -- Introduction -- Research method -- Science, scientism and neuroscientism -- Academisation as other sources of legitimacy -- Rhetoric of universality -- Buddhist discourse of suffering -- Ethics of rebranding: participants' position -- Mental health and resilience -- OMC history and mission statement -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV Global and regional transmissions -- 19 Yoga and meditation traditions in insular Southeast Asia -- Introduction -- The earliest literary evidence: the old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa -- Old Javanese Śaiva sources on aṣṭāṅgayoga and ṣaḍaṅgayoga -- Old Javanese Buddhist sources on yoga -- Classical Malay literature from Sumatra -- Yoga in modern Bali -- Modern Javanese mystical movements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 20 Yoga in Tibet -- Introduction: yoga comes to Tibet -- Buddhist philosophy as the foundation of tantra and yoga -- Tibetan yoga in the three main canons -- Yoga as a doxographical category: the four-fold and six-fold classes of tantra -- The Ancient tradition: six classes of tantra culminating in 'Supreme Yoga' -- The New orders of Tibetan Buddhism and the four classes of tantra -- Naljor in ancillary branch systems -- Kālacakra's six yogas -- Mahāmudrā's four yogas -- Nāropa's six doctrines -- Niguma's six dharmas -- Tibetan yogis -- Milarepa, Tibet's most famous yogi -- Case study: monastic yogins at Namdroling Monastery and Nunnery in South India -- The annual retreats -- It begins with empowerment -- Motivation setting. The yoga practice -- The sequences -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 21 The political history of meditation and yoga in Japan -- Introduction -- Buddhism and meditation from the ancient to medieval periods -- Transformations in the early modern era -- Confucianism and the imperial family line in Japan -- Kokugaku and Daoism -- Meditation and yoga in the modern period -- Psychologisation and universalisation of meditation -- Political theology on meditation -- Postmodern meditation and yoga -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 22 Yoga and meditation in Korea -- Introduction -- Traditions of practice and meditation in Korea -- Confucianism in Korea -- Daoism in Korea -- Buddhism in Korea -- Won Buddhism as a new religion in Korea -- Yoga in Korea -- Current status of academic study of yoga in Korea -- Bibliography -- 23 Yoga in Latin America: A critical overview -- Introduction -- Understandings of 'yoga' -- Forerunners and diffusors -- Typologies 1: yoga, meditation and bodywork -- Typologies 2: Latin American yoga -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 24 Anglophone yoga and meditation outside of India -- Introduction -- Early modern and nineteenth-century networks and translations -- The Theosophical Society -- Early twentieth-century publications -- Anglophone physical culture and yoga -- Immigration, English and empire -- Adult education and mass media -- Movement of gurus and the counter-culture -- The arrival of scientific meditation -- Early 1980s to the present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 25 The yogic body in global transmission -- Introduction -- Context and terms -- Yogic body -- Cakras -- Kuṇḍalinī and kuṇḍalinī yoga -- Behind the veil -- Public kuṇḍalinī -- Concluding remarks -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part V Disciplinary framings -- 26 Philology and digital humanities -- Introduction. Reconstructing an ancient text.
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques.
9781351050739
Yoga.
Electronic books.
B132.Y6 / .R688 2021
181.45
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (565 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Editorial board -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- A note on terms and translations -- Part I Introduction to yoga and meditation studies -- 1 Reframing yoga and meditation studies -- Introduction -- Defining meditation and yoga: the challenges -- Shifting discussions and emerging areas of research -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Decolonising yoga -- Why decolonise? -- Knowledge, body, empire -- Travel, positionality and power -- Nationalism, decolonisation, recolonisation -- Conclusion: towards yoga as critique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Meditation in contemporary contexts: Current discussions -- Introduction -- Challenges of definition -- Historical and comparative approaches -- Research positions -- Critical discourses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy -- Introduction -- Varieties of scholar-practitioner -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Neoliberal yoga -- Introduction -- Selling yoga -- Neoliberal yoga -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II History of yoga and meditation in South Asia -- 6 How yoga became yoga: Yoga and meditation up to the classical period -- Introduction -- Pre-classical period -- Prehistoric: the Indus Valley Civilization -- Early history: yoga in the Vedas -- What was the praxis of the Buddha called? -- Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita: sam.khya and yoga (theory and practice) -- The terms yogavacara and yogacara in Buddhist sources -- Hiran.yagarbha's Yogasastra -- Pasupatayoga -- Classical period -- The Patañjalayogasastra -- Classical period after the Patañjalayogasastra -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Buddhist meditation in South Asia: An overview -- Introduction -- Key terms. Meditation subjects -- Main meditative techniques and paths of spiritual cultivation -- Early and mainstream Buddhism -- Tranquillity and insight -- The path of spiritual cultivation in Sarvastivada Buddhism -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Emptiness and compassion -- The path of spiritual cultivation in Yogacara Buddhism -- Tantric Buddhism -- Visualisations and energy control -- The path of spiritual cultivation in the noble lineage of the esoteric community -- In lieu of conclusion -- Original sources and abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Tantric transformations of yoga: Kun.d.alini in the ninth to tenth century -- Introduction -- Ṣaṭka 1 -- Ṣaṭka 2 -- Ṣaṭka 3 -- Ṣaṭka 4 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Early haṭhayoga -- Introduction -- Textual criticism and haṭhayoga -- Precursors of haṭhayoga -- Early haṭha's textual corpus -- Goals of haṭhayoga -- Haṭhayoga after the Haṭhapradipika -- Haṭhayoga in contemporary ascetic culture -- Haṭhayoga in modern global yoga -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Yoga and meditation in modern esoteric traditions -- Introduction -- Mesmerism -- Spiritualism and early occultism -- The Theosophical Society -- Later Occultism and New Thought -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 11 Hindu ascetics and the political in contemporary India -- Introduction -- The social involvement of modern Hindu ascetics -- Contemporary configurations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 Yoga and meditation as a health intervention -- Introduction -- Yoga and meditation in AYUSH -- Historical entanglements of yoga, meditation and health -- Contemporary experiences of yogic health interventions in India -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Doctrinal perspectives -- 13 Yoga and meditation in the Jain tradition -- Introduction -- The term yoga in early Jain texts. Bhāvanā-yoga -- Dhyāna-yoga -- Mahāvīra's meditation -- The four dhyānas -- The two meditations: worldly (saṃsārika) psychological states -- Ārtta- dhyāna (anguished meditation) -- Raudra-dhyāna (wrathful meditation) -- The two meditations: liberating psychological states -- Dharma-dhyāna (virtuous meditation) -- Śukla-dhyāna (pure meditation) -- Digambara meditation on the soul -- Contemplation (anuprekṣā) -- Āsana -- Medieval Jain yoga -- Ācārya Haribhadra -- Ācārya Śubhacandra -- Ācārya Hemacandra -- Modern Jain yoga -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14 Daoist meditation -- Introduction -- On meditation and so-called 'Taoist yoga' -- The Daoist tradition and types of Daoist meditation -- 'Guarding the One' -- Visualising the dipper -- Forming the elixir -- Sitting in the modern Daoist tradition -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15 Islam, yoga and meditation -- Introduction: the issue of permissibility -- Muslim engagement with yoga -- When all breaths are not commensurable: `ilm-i dam and zikr, svarodaya and prāṇāyāma -- Meditation -- Contemporary issues -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 16 Sikhi(sm): Yoga and meditation -- Introduction -- Medieval background: Indian renaissance and Gur-Sikh Enlightenment -- Guru Granth Sahib's critique of yoga and meditation -- Aasan (spiritual yoga) -- True yoga as sahaj-jog -- Takhat (political yoga): raaj-jog -- Splitting raaj-jog in the conversion to western modernity -- Contemporary scene: Sikh yoga and meditation movements -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 17 Christianity: Classical, modern and postmodern forms of contemplation -- Introduction -- Contemplation within the context of Christian prayer -- Classics of Christian contemplation -- John Cassian -- The Cloud of Unknowing -- Recollection: St. Teresa of Avila. Recollection: Evelyn Underhill -- Eastern Orthodox recollection: the Jesus Prayer -- Popular contemporary Christian contemplation -- Centering Prayer -- Christian Meditation -- Postmodern Christian contemplation: non-Christian influences and religious hybridity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 18 Secular discourse as a legitimating strategy for mindfulness meditation -- Introduction -- Research method -- Science, scientism and neuroscientism -- Academisation as other sources of legitimacy -- Rhetoric of universality -- Buddhist discourse of suffering -- Ethics of rebranding: participants' position -- Mental health and resilience -- OMC history and mission statement -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV Global and regional transmissions -- 19 Yoga and meditation traditions in insular Southeast Asia -- Introduction -- The earliest literary evidence: the old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa -- Old Javanese Śaiva sources on aṣṭāṅgayoga and ṣaḍaṅgayoga -- Old Javanese Buddhist sources on yoga -- Classical Malay literature from Sumatra -- Yoga in modern Bali -- Modern Javanese mystical movements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 20 Yoga in Tibet -- Introduction: yoga comes to Tibet -- Buddhist philosophy as the foundation of tantra and yoga -- Tibetan yoga in the three main canons -- Yoga as a doxographical category: the four-fold and six-fold classes of tantra -- The Ancient tradition: six classes of tantra culminating in 'Supreme Yoga' -- The New orders of Tibetan Buddhism and the four classes of tantra -- Naljor in ancillary branch systems -- Kālacakra's six yogas -- Mahāmudrā's four yogas -- Nāropa's six doctrines -- Niguma's six dharmas -- Tibetan yogis -- Milarepa, Tibet's most famous yogi -- Case study: monastic yogins at Namdroling Monastery and Nunnery in South India -- The annual retreats -- It begins with empowerment -- Motivation setting. The yoga practice -- The sequences -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 21 The political history of meditation and yoga in Japan -- Introduction -- Buddhism and meditation from the ancient to medieval periods -- Transformations in the early modern era -- Confucianism and the imperial family line in Japan -- Kokugaku and Daoism -- Meditation and yoga in the modern period -- Psychologisation and universalisation of meditation -- Political theology on meditation -- Postmodern meditation and yoga -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 22 Yoga and meditation in Korea -- Introduction -- Traditions of practice and meditation in Korea -- Confucianism in Korea -- Daoism in Korea -- Buddhism in Korea -- Won Buddhism as a new religion in Korea -- Yoga in Korea -- Current status of academic study of yoga in Korea -- Bibliography -- 23 Yoga in Latin America: A critical overview -- Introduction -- Understandings of 'yoga' -- Forerunners and diffusors -- Typologies 1: yoga, meditation and bodywork -- Typologies 2: Latin American yoga -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 24 Anglophone yoga and meditation outside of India -- Introduction -- Early modern and nineteenth-century networks and translations -- The Theosophical Society -- Early twentieth-century publications -- Anglophone physical culture and yoga -- Immigration, English and empire -- Adult education and mass media -- Movement of gurus and the counter-culture -- The arrival of scientific meditation -- Early 1980s to the present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 25 The yogic body in global transmission -- Introduction -- Context and terms -- Yogic body -- Cakras -- Kuṇḍalinī and kuṇḍalinī yoga -- Behind the veil -- Public kuṇḍalinī -- Concluding remarks -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part V Disciplinary framings -- 26 Philology and digital humanities -- Introduction. Reconstructing an ancient text.
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques.
9781351050739
Yoga.
Electronic books.
B132.Y6 / .R688 2021
181.45