Table of Contents

Introduction, Christopher Key Chapple 1. The Historical Development of the Jaina Yoga System and the Impacts of Other Yoga Systems on Jaina Yoga: A Comparative and Critical Study, Sagarmal Jain 2. Yoga in the Tattvārthasūtra, Jayandra Soni 3. Kundakunda versus Sāmkhya on the Soul, Johannes Bronkhorst 4. Extrasensory Perception (Yogi-Pratyaksa) in Jainism, Proofs of Its Existence and Its Soteriological Implications, Piotr Balcerowicz 5. Extrasensory Perception (Yogi-Pratyaksa) in Jainism and Its Refutations, Piotr Balcerowicz 6. The Jaina Yogas of Haribhadra Virahānka’s Yogabindu, Christopher Key Chapple 7. Hemacandra on Yoga, Olle Qvarnström 8. Ethics and Mysticism in Jaina Yoga Spirituality, Kamal Chand Sogani 9. Yaśovijaya’s View of Yoga, Jeffrey Long 10. When Will I Meet Such A Guru? Images of the Yogi in Digambar Hymns, John E. Cort 10. Preksā Dhyāna in Jaina Yoga: An Archetypal Ritual for the Proper Ordering of the Soul, Smita Kothari 11. Jain Modern Yoga: The Case of Preksā Dhyāna, Andrea R. Jain 12. Contemporary Expressions of Yoga in Jainism, Christopher Key Chapple

About the Author

Christopher Key Chapple is the Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

Reviews

'The strength of the volume thus lies in contributions like Cort's that focus on unstudied texts and practices that shed light on overlooked understandings of yoga and the yogi... For those who wish to examine the history of Jain yogas, Chapple's book is a great start.'
Ellen Gough, Emory University, Marginalia Review of Books