Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty

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" Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty "
James Morley

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081325
Doc. No	:	LA124954
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852908X270980‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	James Morley
Title & Author	:	Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty [Article]\ James Morley
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/1
Page No	:	144–163
Abstract	:	"Yoga, the ancient inter-religious thread running through all Indian Spirituality, shares a remarkable congruence with twentieth-century phenomenology. But this conjuncture is not based on a common aspiration of "transcendence from the world," as argued by previous comparisons. Instead, by applying the more advanced Existential Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the more indigenous Tantric stream of yoga, it will be shown that this congruence occurs in just the opposite direction of immersion into the very "flesh of the world"—the lived human body as homology of the cosmos. Yoga may offer phenomenology a much-needed somatic contemplative praxis, as much as phenomenology may offer yoga the basis for an appropriate theoretical articulation."
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	HUSSERL
Descriptor	:	MERLEAU-PONTY
Descriptor	:	PHENOMENOLOGY
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	SOMATIC SPIRITUALITY
Descriptor	:	TANTRIC YOGA
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852908X270980‬