Table of Contents

Preface 1. The Life Story of Haribhadra 2. Haribhadra and Patanjali 3. The Vedantin Yoga of Bhagavaddata and the Buddhist Yoga of Bhaskara 4. Centrality of the Real 5. Purity in Patanjali and Haribhadra 6. Haribhadra's Critique of Tantric Yoga 7. Haribhadra's Sociology of Yoga and Its Culmination Chart Comparing Forms of Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya Yogadrstisamuccaya (A Collection of Views on Yoga) Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Christopher Key Chapple is Professor of Theological Studies and Director of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He has published several books, including Karma and Creativity and Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions, both with SUNY Press. John Thomas Casey is Visiting Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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