Description This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga S tra.
Ana Laura Funes Maderey is assistant professor of philosophy at Eastern Connecticut State University..
About the Author Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi professor of Indic and comparative theology and director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between the realistic or idealistic Interpretation of the text, the relation between Yoga and other Indian philosophical schools, the use of imagination in the pursuit of self-knowledge, the interplay between consciousness and nature, the possibilities and limitations of using it as a therapeutic philosophy, the science of meditation, and overcoming our fear of death probe the many dimensions that this text continues to offer for thought and reflection.
It revisits Pata jali\'s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives.
Description This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga S tra
