Feuerstein, Georg, PhD, Jeanine Miller

The Essence of Yoga

Essays on the Development of Yogic Philosophy from the Vedas to Modern Times

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by two renowned yoga scholars explores the development of yogic thought across the ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780892817382
• ISBN-10: 0892817380
• Artikelnr.: 22430966

Autorenporträt

Georg Feuerstein was an internationally recognized yoga scholar who began studying yoga at the age of fourteen. He is the author of The Essence of Yoga, Lucid Waking, The Philosophy of Classical Yoga, Sacred Sexuality, and The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Preface
1 The Essence of Yoga
2 Some Notes on Rgvedic Interpretation (J. Miller and G. Feuerstein)
3 The Hymn of Creation. A Philosophical Interpretation (J. Miller)
4 The Meaning of Suffering in Yoga (G. Feuerstein)
5 Forerunners of Yoga: The Kesin Hymn (J. Miller)
6 The Heart of Rgvedic Religion: Agni, Flame Divine (J. Miller)
7 Meister Eckehart - Mystic or Yogin? (G. Feuerstein)
Appendix
Diagram I: The ontological elements of Patanjalayoga
Diagram II: The stages of enstasis (samadhi) according to the Yoga-Sutra
of Patanjali
Index