Samādhi

Stuart Ray Sarbacker is Lecturer in Religion at Northwestern University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMethod and the Study of Meditation1. Sources and Definitions2. Reinterpreting Religious Experience3. Yoga, Shamanism, and Buddhism: A New Phenomenology4. The Debate over Dialogue: Classical Yoga and Buddhism in Comparison5. Traditions in Transition: Meditative Concepts in the Development of Tantric Sa\dhanaConclusionMeditation, Phenomenology, and the Concept of Sama\dhiNotesBibliographyIndex

"Stuart Sarbacker has written an important book for the study of yogic and meditative phenomena, one of few that advances the discussion from where Eliade left off in his own work." — Philosophy East & West"One of the most fruitful aspects of Sarbacker's investigation is his comparison between Classical Yoga and Buddhism, which underscores the yogic roots of Buddhism on the one hand and the Buddhist influence on Classical Yoga on the other." — Traditional Yoga Studies"Sarbacker tackles an immense swath of material and accompanying secondary literature and manages to do something genuinely creative with it all, that is, develop his own phenomenology of meditative experience via his central categories of the numinous and cessative." — Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism