Yoga Consultation Program AAR 2008

[Stuart Ray Sarbacker]

Hello All--

Please see the Yoga Consultation Program for this year's AAR  
conference in Chicago. We have two excellent sessions with a  
decidedly Buddhist flavor this year. Hope that you will join us for  
the sessions and for the business meeting on Monday. Please note that  
there has been a change to session A2-328 which was originally listed  
as "Tamil and Tibetan Yoga"--as the presenter on Tamil yoga had to  
withdraw, we have focused the session uniquely on Tibetan Buddhist yoga.

Best Wishes,
Stuart Sarbacker
Northwestern University

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A2-328
Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation
Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
CHT-Joliet

Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago, Presiding

Theme: Variations of Yoga: Modern Tibetan Buddhist Yoga

Panelists:

Alejandro Chaoul, University of Texas, Houston
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University
Anne C. Klein, Rice University

Responding:

David Gray, Santa Clara University


A3-124
Tantric Studies Group and Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation
Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
CHT-Astoria

Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding

Theme: Yogic Powers (Siddhis)

Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen
Are the Powers (Siddhis) of the Yogasutra an Example of Buddhist  
Influence on Yoga?

David Fiordalis, University of Michigan
The Miracles of the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśha: Narrative Form and  
Doctrinal Content

Bradley S. Clough, University of Montana
Remembering Lives and Reading Minds: The Importance of Yogic Powers  
in Early Theravada Buddhism

David G. White, University of California, Santa Barbara
How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See?

Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University
Holding On, Letting Go, and Hitting the Mark: Demonstrating  
“Success” in Classical Yoga

Business Meeting:

Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University