This book surveys the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion, spiritual formation, prayer, ritual, and worship.
This book surveys the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion, spiritual formation, prayer, ritual, and worship.
Rita D. Sherma is Director and Associate Professor at the Shingal Center for Dharma Studies, Chair of the Department of Theology and Ethics, and Core Doctoral Faculty, at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, USA. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Dharma Studies. Purushottama Bilimoria is a Distinguished Research Fellow in Indian Philosophy with the Center for Dharma Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; and Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical and the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions and is also co-editor of Journal of Dharma Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Contemplative Studies and the Principles and Practices of Hindu Contemplative Life: An Introduction Rita D. Sherma Part I. Contemplative Practice: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Considerations 2. On Creating a Contemplative Studies Program in the Southwest Andrew O. Fort 3. Contemplative Experience: An Interdharma Comparative Reflection Rita D. Sherma Part II. Contemplation and Yoga Praxis 4. Why Meditate on God? The Role of vara-präidh na in the Classical S khya and Yoga Tradition Marzenna Jakubczak 5. Emotional and Devotional Union: A Bh gavata Theology of Oneness Gopal K. Gupta 6. Sri Chinmoy on the Nature and Goals of Contemplative Practice Kusumita P. Pedersen Part III. S dhana: Knowledge, Wonder, and Love 7. The Role of S dhan in Advaita Ved nta Varun Khanna 8. The Instability of Non-Dual Knowing: Post-Gnosis S dhana in Vidy räya's Advaita Ved nta James Madaio 9. r vidy : A kta Model of Esoteric S dhan of the r cakra Madhu Khanna 10. The Body and Wonder in Tantra Loriliai Biernacki 11. Semiotics and Illocution in Gau ya S dhana Cogen Bohanec Part IV. Prayer, Worship, and Ritual 12. Prayer and Worship in the Ascetics of the Ramananda Sampraday Ramdas Lamb 13. M ntric Effect, Effervescent Devat -s, Noetic Supplications, and Ap rva in the M m s Purushottama Bilimoria 14. Prayer and Worship through Music and Liturgy in North Indian Vai ava Traditions Guy L. Beck
1. Contemplative Studies and the Principles and Practices of Hindu Contemplative Life: An Introduction Rita D. Sherma Part I. Contemplative Practice: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Considerations 2. On Creating a Contemplative Studies Program in the Southwest Andrew O. Fort 3. Contemplative Experience: An Interdharma Comparative Reflection Rita D. Sherma Part II. Contemplation and Yoga Praxis 4. Why Meditate on God? The Role of vara-präidh na in the Classical S khya and Yoga Tradition Marzenna Jakubczak 5. Emotional and Devotional Union: A Bh gavata Theology of Oneness Gopal K. Gupta 6. Sri Chinmoy on the Nature and Goals of Contemplative Practice Kusumita P. Pedersen Part III. S dhana: Knowledge, Wonder, and Love 7. The Role of S dhan in Advaita Ved nta Varun Khanna 8. The Instability of Non-Dual Knowing: Post-Gnosis S dhana in Vidy räya's Advaita Ved nta James Madaio 9. r vidy : A kta Model of Esoteric S dhan of the r cakra Madhu Khanna 10. The Body and Wonder in Tantra Loriliai Biernacki 11. Semiotics and Illocution in Gau ya S dhana Cogen Bohanec Part IV. Prayer, Worship, and Ritual 12. Prayer and Worship in the Ascetics of the Ramananda Sampraday Ramdas Lamb 13. M ntric Effect, Effervescent Devat -s, Noetic Supplications, and Ap rva in the M m s Purushottama Bilimoria 14. Prayer and Worship through Music and Liturgy in North Indian Vai ava Traditions Guy L. Beck
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