Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and ConcentrationKnut A. Jacobsen The book offers a number of new insights in the history of yoga powers in the South Asian religious traditions, analyzes the position of the powers in the salvific process and in conceptions of divinity, and explores the rational explanations of the powers provided by the traditions. |
Contents
Yoga Powers and Religious Traditions | 1 |
Yoga powers in the Mahābhārata | 33 |
How Big Can Yogis Get?
How Much Can Yogis See? | 61 |
The Cultivation of Yogic Powers in the Pāli Path Manuals of Theravāda Buddhism | 77 |
Miracle or Marvel? | 97 |
On the Appearance of Siddhis in Chinese Buddhist Texts | 127 |
Supernatural Powers and Their Attainment
in Jainism | 145 |
Power and Meaning in the Yogasūtra
of Patañjali | 195 |
Bhuśuṇḍas Yoga of Prāṇa in the Yogavāsiṣṭha | 303 |
Siddhi and Mahāsiddhi in Early Haṭhayoga | 327 |
Encounters with Yogīs in Sufi and Bhakti Hagiograpical Literature | 345 |
Sāī Bābā of Śirḍī and Yoga Powers | 381 |
Yogic Powers and the Rāmānanda Sampradāy | 427 |
Yoga Powers in a Contemporary SāṃkhyaYoga Tradition | 459 |
Yoga and Tantra in the Human Potential Movement and Beyond | 479 |
Contributors | 509 |
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