TY - BOOK ID - 77865129 TI - Samadhi : The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga PY - 2005 SN - 0791482812 142374781X 9781423747819 9780791482810 0791465535 9780791465530 0791465543 9780791465547 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Yoga. KW - Meditation KW - Yoga KW - Yoga exercises KW - Exercise KW - Philosophy, Indic KW - Dhyāna (Meditation) KW - Meditation (Hinduism) KW - Meditation (Buddhism) KW - Meditation (Lamaism) KW - Buddhism. KW - Hinduism. KW - Hinduism KW - Tantric Buddhism KW - Zen Buddhism KW - meditation KW - religious experience KW - yoga KW - shamanism KW - Buddhism KW - classical yoga KW - meditative concepts KW - Tantric Sadhana KW - phenomenology KW - Samadhi UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865129 AB - A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experience have affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yoga from its origins to its contemporary practice. He also integrates sociological and psychological perspectives on religious experience into a larger phenomenological model to address the multifaceted nature of religious experience. Speaking to a broad range of methodological and contextual issues, Samadhi provides numerous insights into the theory and practice of yoga that are relevant to both scholars of religious studies and practitioners of contemporary yoga and meditation traditions. ER -