Yoga powers: extraordinary capacities attained through meditation and concentration

The book offers a number of new insights in the history of yoga powers in the South Asian religious traditions, analyzes the position of the powers in the salvific process and in conceptions of divinity, and explores the rational explanations of the powers provided by the traditions

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Subtitles:Extraordinary capacities attained through meditation and concentration
Corporate Author: American Academy of Religion (Other)
Contributors: Jacobsen, Knut A. 1956- (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2011
In:Year: 2011
Series/Journal:Brill's Indological library v. 37
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Yoga
Further subjects:B Meditation
B South Asia Religion
B South Asia Religion
B Yoga
B Conference program
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505 8 0 |a List of Figures; A Note on Transliteration; List of Abbreviations; introduction; Yoga Powers and Religious Traditions; Knut A. Jacobsen; Chapter one; Yoga powers in the Mahabharata; Angelika Malinar; Chapter two; How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?; David Gordon White; Chapter three; The Cultivation of Yogic Powers in the Pa¯li Path Manuals of Therava¯da Buddhism; Brad Clough; Chapter four; The Wondrous Display of Superhuman Power in the Vimala­kirtinir­desa: Miracle or Marvel?; David V. Fiordalis; Chapter five; On the Appearance of Siddhis in Chinese Buddhist Texts 
505 8 0 |a Ryan Richard OverbeyChapter six; Supernatural Powers and Their Attainment in Jainism; Kristi L. Wiley; Chapter seven; Power and Meaning in the Yogasutra of Patañjali; Stuart Ray Sarbacker; Chapter eight; Siddhis in the Yogasutra; Christopher Key Chapple; Chapter nine; Holding On and Letting Go: The In and Out of Powers in Classical Yoga.; Lloyd W. Pflueger; Chapter ten; Powers and Identities: Yoga Powers and the Tantric Saiva Traditions; Somadeva Vasudeva; Chapter eleven; Liberation and Immortality: Bhusu??a's Yoga of Pra?a in the Yogavasi??ha; Sthaneshwar Timalsina; Chapter twelve 
505 8 0 |a Siddhi and Mahasiddhi in Early Ha?hayogaJames Mallinson; Chapter thirteen; My Miracle Trumps Your Magic: Encounters with Yogis in Sufi and Bhakti Hagiograpical Literature; Patton Burchett; Chapter fourteen; Sai Baba of Sir?i and Yoga Powers; Antonio Rigopoulos; Chapter fifteen; Yogic Powers and the Ramananda Sampraday; Ramdas Lamb; Chapter SIXTEEN; Yoga Powers in a Contemporary Sa?khya-Yoga Tradition; Knut A. Jacobsen; Chapter seventeen; The Evolving Siddhi: Yoga and Tantra in the Human Potential Movement and Beyond; Jeffrey J. Kripal; Contributors; Index; 
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