Download e-book for kindle: Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga by Stuart Ray Sarbacker

A historic and comparative examine grounded in shut readings of significant works, this booklet explores the dynamics of the idea and perform of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. writer Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the attention-grabbing, contrasting perceptions that meditation results in the attainment of divine, or numinous, energy, and to accomplish get away from worldly lifestyles, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that those dimensions of non secular event have affected the doctrine and cultural importance of yoga from its origins to its modern perform. He additionally integrates sociological and mental views on non secular adventure right into a higher phenomenological version to deal with the multifaceted nature of spiritual adventure. chatting with a huge diversity of methodological and contextual matters, Samadhi presents a variety of insights into the idea and perform of yoga which are appropriate to either students of non secular reviews and practitioners of latest yoga and meditation traditions.

“Stuart Sarbacker has written an immense publication for the research of yogic and meditative phenomena, certainly one of few that advances the dialogue from the place Eliade left off in his personal work.” — Philosophy East & West

“One of the main fruitful features of Sarbacker’s research is his comparability among Classical Yoga and Buddhism, which underscores the yogic roots of Buddhism at the one hand and the Buddhist impact on Classical Yoga at the other.” — conventional Yoga Studies

“Sarbacker tackles a huge swath of fabric and accompanying secondary literature and manages to do whatever surely inventive with all of it, that's, improve his personal phenomenology of meditative adventure through his crucial different types of the numinous and cessative.” — Jeffrey J. Kripal, writer of Roads of extra, Palaces of knowledge: Eroticism and Reflexivity within the examine of Mysticism

Stuart Ray Sarbacker is Lecturer in faith at Northwestern University.