Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Method and the Study of Meditation 1. Sources and Definitions 2. Reinterpreting Religious Experience 3. Yoga, Shamanism, and Buddhism: A New Phenomenology 4. The Debate over Dialogue: Classical Yoga and Buddhism in Comparison 5. Traditions in Transition: Meditative Concepts in the Development of Tantric Sadhana Conclusion Meditation, Phenomenology, and the Concept of Samadhi Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Stuart Ray Sarbacker is Lecturer in Religion at Northwestern University.

Reviews

"Stuart Sarbacker has written an important book for the study of yogic and meditative phenomena, one of few that advances the discussion from where Eliade left off in his own work." - Philosophy East & West "One of the most fruitful aspects of Sarbacker's investigation is his comparison between Classical Yoga and Buddhism, which underscores the yogic roots of Buddhism on the one hand and the Buddhist influence on Classical Yoga on the other." - Traditional Yoga Studies "Sarbacker tackles an immense swath of material and accompanying secondary literature and manages to do something genuinely creative with it all, that is, develop his own phenomenology of meditative experience via his central categories of the numinous and cessative." - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism