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Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration

Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration

Jacobsen, Knut A.

Hardcover

Religion General General Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 9004212140
ISBN13: 9789004212145
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 6 2011
Pages: 12
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
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, Haṭha Yoga, Tantra and Śaiva textual traditions, in South Asian medieval and modern hagographies, and in some contemporary yoga traditions.

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