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Sallekhana

The Jain Approach to Dignified Death

by Christopher Key Chapple, Shagun Chand Jain ...

Jainism regards life to be eternal. Recognizing that the soul can never die, but merely takes a new body, a careful tradition welcoming death through intentional fasting developed more than two thousand years ago. A legal challenge Rajasthan was put forward in 2013, suggesting that this practice is harmful and coercive and targets women in particular. For a short while SallekhanÀ, which means the ... Read more

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Jainism regards life to be eternal. Recognizing that the soul can never die, but merely takes a new body, a careful tradition welcoming death through intentional fasting developed more than two thousand years ago. A legal challenge Rajasthan was put forward in 2013, suggesting that this practice is harmful and coercive and targets women in particular. For a short while SallekhanÀ, which means the
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The Eight Limbs of Yoga

A Handbook for Living Yoga Philosophy

by Stuart Ray Sarbacker, Kevin Kimple ...

A clear, concise guidebook to the essentials of yogic thought and practiceMany people think yoga simply means postures and breathing. Not true. The intention of this short guide is practical and straightforward: to say what yoga really is and to apply its principles to everyday life. It leads us through the eight-limbed system, a coherent framework that has been handed down and elaborated upon for ... Read more

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A clear, concise guidebook to the essentials of yogic thought and practiceMany people think yoga simply means postures and breathing. Not true. The intention of this short guide is practical and straightforward: to say what yoga really is and to apply its principles to everyday life. It leads us through the eight-limbed system, a coherent framework that has been handed down and elaborated upon for
... Read more
The Sāṃkhya System

Accounting for the Real

Edited by Christopher Key Chapple ...

Series series SUNY series in Hindu Studies
E****xplores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.The Sāṃkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of philosophy, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Although notably not theological, its key ... Read more

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E****xplores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.The Sāṃkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of philosophy, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Although notably not theological, its key
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Embodied Ecology

Yoga and the Environment

by Christopher Key Chapple ...

Series series The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Mandala Publishing Series
In this book, scholar of Indic religions Christopher Key Chapple explores how resources from the Hindu and Yoga traditions can inform contemporary conversations about the problems of environmental degradation, both in India and globally.The world finds itself in an existential crisis. Climate chaos abounds. Pollution vitiates soil, water, and food. Anxiety and depression press upon human psyches, ... Read more

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In this book, scholar of Indic religions Christopher Key Chapple explores how resources from the Hindu and Yoga traditions can inform contemporary conversations about the problems of environmental degradation, both in India and globally.The world finds itself in an existential crisis. Climate chaos abounds. Pollution vitiates soil, water, and food. Anxiety and depression press upon human psyches,
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Yoga Therapy Foundations, Tools, and Practice

A Comprehensive Textbook

by Melinda Atkins, Sundar Balasubramanian, Marsha D. Banks-Harold, Judi Bar, Kelli Bethel, Leigh Blashki, Courtney D. Butler-Robinson, Christopher Key Chapple, Madoka Chase Onizuka, Theresa Conroy, Marsha Therese Danzig, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Jivana Heyman, Kazuo Keishin Kimura, Yana Kofman, Rachel Krentzman, Jennie Lee, Leigh Leibel, Gina Macauley, Michael J. de Manincor, Molly McManus, Tracey L. Meyers, Marybeth Missenda, Mamta Parikh, Crystal L. Park, Gail Parker, Nya Patrinos, Sarajean Rudman, Karen Soltes, Robert H. Stucky, Marlysa Sullivan, Robyn Tiger, Dorcia J. Tucker, Amy Wheeler, Camille Freeman, Stephanie Lopez, Dr Steffany Moonaz, Marilyn Peppers-Citizen ...

Providing essential support to schools and universities that offer yoga therapy training programs, this comprehensive, edited textbook develops robust curricula, enabling them to prepare yoga therapists to integrate into healthcare settings safely and effectively.The book includes a large and international list of contributors from diverse lineages and backgrounds such as Matthew Taylor, Gail ... Read more

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Providing essential support to schools and universities that offer yoga therapy training programs, this comprehensive, edited textbook develops robust curricula, enabling them to prepare yoga therapists to integrate into healthcare settings safely and effectively.The book includes a large and international list of contributors from diverse lineages and backgrounds such as Matthew Taylor, Gail
... Read more
Earthly Things

Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

by Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn, Carol Wayne White ...

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. ... Read more

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Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications.
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The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry

Imagining the Earth Community

by Cristina Vanin, Stephen Dunn, Paul Waldau, Brian Brown, Dennis O’Hara, John Grim, Christopher Key Chapple, Anne Marie Dalton, Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker ...

Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural visionary of extraordinary stature.Thomas Berry’s vast knowledge of history, religions, and ... Read more

$47.99 USD

Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural visionary of extraordinary stature.Thomas Berry’s vast knowledge of history, religions, and
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Art as Contemplative Practice

Expressive Pathways to the Self

by Michael A. Franklin ...

Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting ... Read more

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Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting
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Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care

Chaplaincy in Theory and Practice

by Lucinda Mosher, Vineet Chander, Rita Sherma, Varun Khanna, Anantanand Rambachan, Shaunaka Rishi Das, Christopher Key Chapple, Viraj Patel, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan, Gopal K. Gupta, Rachel Fell McDermott, Madhu Sharma, Swami Sarvaananda, Shama Mehta, Joseph Ghanashyam Caruso, Jeffery Long, Brahmachari V. Sharan, Asha Shipman, Tahil Sharma, Ramdas Lamb, Rasanath Das, Murali Balaji, Pulin Sanghvi, Raja Bhattar, Vaishali Gupta Chandrashekar, Amrutur Srinivasan, Gopal Patel, Shrestha Singh ...

Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus. It ... Read more

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Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus. It
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The Hidden Lives of Brahman

Śaṅkara's Vedānta through His Upaniṣad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice

by Joël André-Michel Dubois ...

Series series SUNY series in Religious Studies
Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara's vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.Finalist for the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions presented by the American Academy of ReligionŚaṅkara's thought, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a tradition focused on brahman, the ultimate reality transcending all particular ... Read more

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Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara's vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.Finalist for the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions presented by the American Academy of ReligionŚaṅkara's thought, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a tradition focused on brahman, the ultimate reality transcending all particular
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Engaged Emancipation

Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha)

Edited by Christopher Key Chapple, Arindam Chakrabarti ...

A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya**, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.**In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young protégé Lord Rāma about the ways of the world through sixty ... Read more

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A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya**, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.**In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young protégé Lord Rāma about the ways of the world through sixty
... Read more
Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali

Translation and Interpretation

by Christopher Key Chapple, Ana Laura Funes Maderey, Arindam Chakrabarti, Stephanie Corigliano, Yohanan Grinshpon, Kevin Perry Maroufkhani, Daniel Raveh, Ian Whicher, Mikel Burley0, Stephen Phillips1 ...

Series series Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga Sutra. It revisits Patañjali’s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives. Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between the realistic or idealistic interpretation of the text, the relation between Yoga and other Indian ... Read more

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This book presents contemporary scholarship on the Yoga Sutra. It revisits Patañjali’s philosophy by bringing it into dialogue with contemporary concerns across a variety of topics and perspectives. Questions regarding the role of the body in the practice of classical yoga, the debate between the realistic or idealistic interpretation of the text, the relation between Yoga and other Indian
... Read more

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