Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)  -  Stuart Ray Sarbacker

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Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.

A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarb...
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Uitgever: State University Of New York Press 202 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0791465543 ISBN-13: 9780791465547