Classical Discourses of Liberation

Shared Botanical Metaphors in Sarvastivada Buddhism and the Yoga of Patañjali

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ID12908456
AuthorsKaren O’brien-Kop (0000-0001-9954-8321, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume11
Issue2-3
Pages123-157
Publication date2018-09-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions of South Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2689 • E-ISSN: 1751-2697
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/rosa.37021
OpenAlexW2892168016
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Conventionally, the label 'classical yoga' has been aligned with-and sometimes conflated with-the text of Patañjali's Yogasutra. Yet if we broaden the scope of inspection to a wider textual corpus, we can identify a richer and more complex discourse of classical yoga in soteriological contexts. This discourse is also employed in Buddhist Sarvastivada traditions and is semantically and metaphorically entangled across religious boundaries. By comparing passages from the Patañjalayogasastra and the Abhidharmakosabhasya, this article highlights the botanical image of the seed and its seedbed (the substratum) as a key metaphorical structure in the soteriology of the two texts

Art · Buddhism · Conflation · Epistemology · Gautama Buddha · Key (lock · Linguistics · Literature · Scope (computer science · Soteriology · Theology · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion

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