Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
Religion and the Arts 2008 James Morley
AbstractYoga, 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...