Rethinking Classical Yoga And Buddhism

This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called yoga in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen OBrienKop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenthcentury to reframe the cultural period of the 1st 5th centuries CE using categorical markers from South Asian intellectual history. Buddhist traditions were just as concerned as Hindu tradition