[INDOLOGY] New book: Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality

[Joanna Jurewicz]

Dear Karen, congratulations on your book! I am very eager to read it!

With regards,

Joanna Jurewicz

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Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz

Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies

Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies

Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

00-927 Warszawa , Poland

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

College of Human Sciences

UNISA

Pretoria, RSA

Member of Academia Europaea

https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz


pt., 5 lis 2021 o 16:58 Karen O'Brien-Kop via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> Dear colleagues
>
>
>
> I would like to share details of my recently published monograph. Please
> consider recommending to your libraries:
>
>
>
> *Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors and
> Materiality *(2021)
>
> *Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies, Bloomsbury Publishing*
>
>
>
> This monograph employs conceptual metaphor theory to investigate
>
> philosophy of mind and the materiality of Hindu and Buddhist
>
> meditation systems in three 4th-5th-century CE Sanskrit meditation
>
> treatises: the *Pātañjalayogaśāstra*, the *Abhidharmakośabhāṣya* and
>
> the *Yogācārabhūmiśāstra*. The book also challenges the colonial
> historical
>
> framing of these and other religio-philosophical texts as 'classical'
>
> and considers how emic labels from South Asian culture can provide
> more appropriate and useful categorisations.
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>
>
>
> https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rethinking-classical-yoga-and-buddhism-9781350229990/
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>
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> There is also an online book launch discussion on November 12th, details
> of which can be found here: https://bit.ly/3mRcM4f
>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>
>
> Dr. Karen O'Brien-Kop (FHEA)
> *Lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics*
>
> Convenor Y1: BA Philosophy, Religion & Ethics; BA Philosophy
>
>
>
> Howard 112, School of Humanities
>
> University of Roehampton, London SW15 5PH
> Tel: +44 (0)208 392 3427
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>
>
> New book here
> <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rethinking-classical-yoga-and-buddhism-9781350229990/> *Rethinking
> ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors, Materiality*
> (Bloomsbury 2021)
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