Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Patanjala-Yoga (Suny Series in Hindu Studies): Deathly Otherness in Pātañjala-Yoga - Softcover

Grinshpon, Yohanan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 079145102X ISBN 13: 9780791451021

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2001

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Book by Grinshpon Yohanan

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Críticas:

..".this concise but well documented and densely argued study sheds a new light on the Yogasutra and its commentaries, disclosing an unfamiliar and striking landscape to the reader." -- Indologica Taurinensia

"This is a beautifully written book that breaks from the usual scholarly conventions in order to struggle deeply and honestly with the sheer 'otherness' of a classical Indian text, Patanjali's Yogasutra. Grinshpon does not 'look away' from the psychological realities of the text. He does not explain the difficulties away or try to tame the text through some socialized or moral assumption--he lets it stand as a symbol of silence and death and unconscious samadhi, all radically 'other' to any socialized reader. Nor does he artificially separate the text, censor it, or ignore it by halves; instead, he insists on its wholeness, on the integrity of the yogic universe, and on the impossibility of entering that universe through anything other than a great sacrifice." -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna

Reseña del editor:

Explores the experience of yoga in the Yogasutra of Patanjali.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 079145102X
• ISBN 13: 9780791451021
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168