Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali

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.Ana Laura Funes Maderey is assistant professor of philosophy at Eastern Connecticut State University.

• PrefaceIntroductionList of AbbreviationsI. Consciousness and BodyChapter 1Reflections on Liberated ConsciousnessIan WhicherChapter 2On Metaphysics and Imagination (bhavana);a Note on Patañjali’s Siddhis as Yogic VisualizationYohanan GrinshponChapter 3The Perfect Body in Classical Yoga PhilosophyAna Laura Funes MadereyII. Realism vs. IdealismChapter 4The Purported Realism of Classical Yoga Mikel BurleyChapter 5Realism and Omniscience in the YogasutraKevin Perry Maroufkhani and Arindam CharkrabartiIII. Patañjala Yoga and Other TraditionsChapter 6Yoga and the Yogasutra in Classical DarsanaStephen PhillipsChapter 7Can there be a Science of Meditation?Arindam ChakrabartiIV. Suffering, Death, and Return to OriginsChapter 8The Making and Unmaking of the Self: Patañjali’s Yogasutra and the Experience of Trauma Stephanie CoriglianoChapter 9Abhinivesa: Patañjala-yoga on Death and LifeDaniel RavehChapter 10Activity, Cessation, and a Return to Origins in the Yoga SutraChristopher Key ChappleBibliographyList of Contributors

Classical Yoga Philosophy continues to bestow its treasures of wisdom in Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Written by leading experts in the field, the 10 original essays in this volume display philosophical ingenuity, academic rigor, and sensitivity to practice. Explore hidden nuances of Patanjali’s system of yoga by thinking with the contributors to this wonderful book.