Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga: OXFORD STU WESTERN ESOTERICISM SERIES
Autor Keith Edward Cantúen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197665473
ISBN-10: 0197665470
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 52
Dimensiuni: 165 x 226 x 56 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria OXFORD STU WESTERN ESOTERICISM SERIES
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197665470
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 52
Dimensiuni: 165 x 226 x 56 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria OXFORD STU WESTERN ESOTERICISM SERIES
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Excavating the massive archive of the heretofore unexplored writings of the late nineteenth-century South Indian visionary Sri Sabhapati Swami, Keith Cantú's magisterial work opens vast new horizons in the field of Modern Yoga Studies. Essential reading for both scholars and practitioners.
A work of exceptional scholarship, this carefully crafted exploration of Sabhapati Swami's life and work demonstrates deft historical and linguistical detective-work. Cantú provides a transparent map of this Swami's previously under-appreciated reach and influence, an exemplary model for future explorations of vernacular transmissions of yoga. Sabhapati's legacy has both 'deep roots and far out branches' relevant to anyone interested in the development of yoga traditions as well as processes of knowledge transmission.
The book will be of much use to anyone interested in yogic studies, the history of modern Western esotericism, Tamil religion, and colonial Hinduism.
Bringing Sabhapati's literature into scholarly discussionthrough previously unanalyzed works, this book is an innovative approach to this lesser-known figure. This work may be of interest to linguists, historians of religion, and scholars ofcomparative religion and new religious movements.
A work of exceptional scholarship, this carefully crafted exploration of Sabhapati Swami's life and work demonstrates deft historical and linguistical detective-work. Cantú provides a transparent map of this Swami's previously under-appreciated reach and influence, an exemplary model for future explorations of vernacular transmissions of yoga. Sabhapati's legacy has both 'deep roots and far out branches' relevant to anyone interested in the development of yoga traditions as well as processes of knowledge transmission.
The book will be of much use to anyone interested in yogic studies, the history of modern Western esotericism, Tamil religion, and colonial Hinduism.
Bringing Sabhapati's literature into scholarly discussionthrough previously unanalyzed works, this book is an innovative approach to this lesser-known figure. This work may be of interest to linguists, historians of religion, and scholars ofcomparative religion and new religious movements.
Notă biografică
Keith Edward Cantú is a Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University. He has previously held roles as a postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, in the DFG-funded project "CAS-E: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective," Assistant Professor (Postdoc/Research Associate) at the Jagiellonian University, and was also a teaching assistant at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his doctoral degree in 2021. His previous publications include the chapter "Sri Sabhapati Swami: Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism" and (as co-editor) City of Mirrors: Songs of Lālan Sāi, published with OUP's South Asia Series in 2017.
Cuprins
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- From Hidden Roots to Outer Blossoms
- A Treelike "Translocalization" of Yoga
- The Chapters and Methodology of This Book
- Chapter 1. Hagiographies and Old Diary Leaves
- Extant Sources for Sabhapati's Life
- Sabhapati's Childhood
- A Quest for Religious Truth
- A Visionary Experience in Velachery
- A Southbound Quest
- Lectures and a Himalayan Flight
- A Splash on the Lahore Scene
- Shrish Chandra Basu and the Theosophical "Founders"
- John Campbell Oman and "Sadhuism"
- A Vision of Agastya Once in Fifty Years
- Sabhapati in Bombay
- Agastya and the Konnur Meditation Hall
- South Indians to the Fore
- Om Prakash Swamigal
- Konnur Ramalinga Swamigal
- Sabhapati Swami's Death and Disappearance
- Chapter 2. A Vast Forest of Printed Words
- Textual Stemmata of Sabhapati's Works
- The Alpha Stemma
- Three Original Editions of vry
- cpsps as Alpha Stemma
- Detailed Contents of the Alpha Stemma
- Bengali and German Translations
- William Estep's Esoteric Cosmic Yogi Science
- The Beta and Gamma Stemmata
- Contextualizing Sabhapati's Vernacular Works
- cpsps as Beta and Gamma Stemmata
- ctcspv and the Gamma Stemma
- ryb and the Beta Stemma
- Pamphlets for Konnur Meditation Hall
- Sabhapati's Literature in Telugu
- Sabhapati's Tamil Work mcvts
- Chapter 3. Seeds of a Cosmological Religion
- Sabhapati's Two Gurus
- Chidambara Swamigal and "Instructive Truth"
- Shivajnana Bodha and the Tamil Siddhas
- An Embodied Cosmos
- Shiva as "Infinite Spirit"
- A Cosmogonic Separation of "Faculties"
- "Illustration by Examples"
- The Tree Universally Spread
- Emancipation and Transmigration
- Household of the Body's Truth (dehatattva)
- Connections with Tamil Saiva Discourse
- Views on Other Religions and Movements
- Sabhapati and Buddhism
- Sabhapati and Christianity
- Sabhapati and Islam
- Sabhapati and Zoroastrianism, or "Parsism"
- Sabhapati and "Samajees"
- Sabhapati and the "Theosophical Societies"
- Sabhapati and Atheism
- Chapter 4. Breathing into ¿ivar¿jayoga
- Three Branches of Yoga
- Hatha Yoga or "Yoga of Force"
- Hähar¿jayoga or "Royal Yoga of Force"
- ¿ivar¿jayoga or "Royal Yoga for Shiva"
- ¿ivar¿jayoga: From Purification to Nonbeing
- Chapter 5. Singing Mantras and Visualizing Flowers
- Lyrical Compositions and Musical Poems
- Incantation of Tones and Mantras
- Sabhapati's Visual Diagrams
- Changing Visual Representations
- Svar¿pa and Yoga
- Chapter 6. Dissecting the Nature of ¿ivar¿jayoga
- Spiritual and Physical Phenomena
- The Pure Ethers
- A Naturalistic Cosmology of Yoga
- Chapter 7. Magical Fruits of Occult Yoga
- Sabhapati and Theosophy
- Franz Hartmann and Sabhapati in German Translation
- Sabhapati and "Thelemic Magick"
- William Estep and "Super Mind Science"
- Epilogue: Parts of a Universal Tree
- Appendix 1. A Translation of t2 (in mcvts)
- Excerpt of t2 (English Translation)
- Excerpt of t2 (Original Tamil)
- Appendix 2. Lexicon of Common Terms and Variants
- Appendix 3. A Passage from vry on the "Pole" of ¿ivar¿jayoga
- References
- Index