Religion, Philosophy, Yoga: A Selection of Articles |
Contents
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About the Religion of Bhartṛhari | 41 |
The Contribution of the Study of Indian Religions | 47 |
Aśoka and the Spread of Buddhism | 61 |
The Saiva Agamas | 67 |
The Dates of Bhāgavatapurāņa and | 79 |
SelfImmolation by Fire and the Indian Buddhist Tradition | 91 |
On Ocular Concentration in Yoga | 269 |
The Origins of an Indian Mystical Technique | 293 |
The Unconscious in Indian Psychology | 307 |
The Western Interpretation of Indian Thought | 311 |
Continence and Sexuality in Buddhism and in the Disciplines of Yoga | 327 |
The Limits of Human Powers in India | 341 |
Thought and Efficiency in Ancient India | 361 |
Yoga and its Underlying Doctrine | 365 |
Docetism in Christianity and in India | 127 |
The Suicides of the Criminal and of the Hero in Indian Tradition | 135 |
Traditional Religions and Modern Cultures | 161 |
The Veda and Ancient Tamil Culture | 179 |
The Respect of Life in Buddhism | 193 |
Echoes of Sufism in India | 199 |
Indian Religions and the Psychology of their Historians | 215 |
Punya and its Semantic Field | 233 |
The Historical and the Present Life of the Veda | 253 |
PART IIPHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY YOGA | 267 |
The Nature of Yoga in its Traditions | 375 |
The Conception of Time and Space in the Indian World | 415 |
The Oedipus Complex in a Buddhist Tantra | 429 |
The Psychological Theories of India | 439 |
Visions of the Spiritual Seekers of India | 451 |
Science and Yoga I and II | 461 |
Yoga and Psychotropic Substances | 471 |
Psychic Tensions and Yoga | 477 |
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