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| The Increasing Importance of the Physical Body in Early Medieval Haṭhayoga: A Reflection on the Yogic Body in Liberation | ||
| 作者 | Shalev, Hagar (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Indian Philosophy |
| 卷期 | v.50 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2022.01 |
| 頁次 | 117 - 142 |
| 出版者 | Springer |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.springer.com/gp/ |
| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Yoga; Haṭha; Body; Liberation; Jīvanmukti |
| 摘要 | One defining feature of the Hindu religious worldviews is a belief in the impermanence of the body and its perception as a source of suffering due to a misguided attachment of the self to its corporeal manifestation. This view is expressed in several important traditions, including classical yoga, which perceives the physical body as an impediment to attaining liberation and irrelevant in the state of liberation (mokṣa, kaivalya).However, the perception of the physical body in liberation is going through ontological changes in early medieval Haṭhayoga texts. The dichotomy between embodied and disembodied states of the body when one is liberated is the focus of this article. In several medieval yoga texts dating between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries, the ontological immortal state of living liberation (jīvanmukti) is more similar to physical death. Often the exact text holds both views of embodied and disembodied states simultaneously with no overt inconsistency. I argue that these tensions and contradictions can be explained in two ways: by looking at the assessed timeline of the texts and by reflecting on their sectarian and social origin. |
| 目次 | Abstract Introduction Phase 1: The Irrelevance of the Physical Body in Liberation Phase 2: The Choice Between Divine and Mortal Bodies Phase 3: The Dominance of Corporeal Immortality Conclusions |
| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 5 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.12.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.12.30 |
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