Greater Magadha

Bronkhorst, Johannes

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“…Some scholars in the humanities consider Patanjali and Shakyamuni Buddha as contemporaries. According to them, in the process of his self-transformation, the Buddha studied and mastered Upanishadic yoga techniques, and his teachings were influenced by these experiences (Feuerstein, 2008; Gombrich, 2009; Gethin, 2011), but see (Bronkhorst, 2007, 2013). Furthermore, the cross-pollination of yoga and Buddhism is most evident in the overlap of Vajrayana Buddhism and Hatha yoga (Feuerstein, 2011).…”

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Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health

Gard¹,

Noggle²,

Park³

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Research suggesting the beneficial effects of yoga on myriad aspects of psychological health has proliferated in recent years, yet there is currently no overarching framework by which to understand yoga’s potential beneficial effects. Here we provide a theoretical framework and systems-based network model of yoga that focuses on integration of top-down and bottom-up forms of self-regulation. We begin by contextualizing yoga in historical and contemporary settings, and then detail how specific components of yoga practice may affect cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and autonomic output under stress through an emphasis on interoception and bottom-up input, resulting in physical and psychological health. The model describes yoga practice as a comprehensive skillset of synergistic process tools that facilitate bidirectional feedback and integration between high- and low-level brain networks, and afferent and re-afferent input from interoceptive processes (somatosensory, viscerosensory, chemosensory). From a predictive coding perspective we propose a shift to perceptual inference for stress modulation and optimal self-regulation. We describe how the processes that sub-serve self-regulation become more automatized and efficient over time and practice, requiring less effort to initiate when necessary and terminate more rapidly when no longer needed. To support our proposed model, we present the available evidence for yoga affecting self-regulatory pathways, integrating existing constructs from behavior theory and cognitive neuroscience with emerging yoga and meditation research. This paper is intended to guide future basic and clinical research, specifically targeting areas of development in the treatment of stress-mediated psychological disorders.

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Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health

Gard¹,

Noggle²,

Park³

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“…Does this suggest the likelihood of genetic development given a concept of personhood, even if just a reflexive pronoun was known in pre-Upaniṣadic literature? Does it mean the idea came from outside of the Vedic/Brāhmaṇa intellectual pool, as implied in Bronkhorst's (2007) work?…”

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Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought

Seaford¹

2016

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Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: www.edinburghuniversitypress.com The right of Richard Seaford to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498 AcknowledgementsThe astonishing similarities between early Indian and early Greek thought have long attracted great interest, but seldom the collaboration that is required for a real advance in explaining them. This volume contains most of the papers delivered at a conference at the University of Exeter in July 2014, as part of the project 'Ātman and Psychē: Cosmology and the Self in Ancient India and Ancient Greece'. The conference, and the project as a whole, were funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to which we are most grateful. The conference consisted of days of lively discussion between Indologists, Hellenists and others: interdisciplinary discovery at its best. Another outcome of the project will be a monograph by myself.I would like to thank Richard Fynes for his help with Sanskrit, and Edinburgh University Press for their enthusiastic efficiency. Richard Seaford Exeter, January 2016 Notes on contributorsNick Allen qualified in social anthropology at Oxford, after studying classics and medicine, undertaking fieldwork in Nepal. From 1976 to 2001 he taught Social Anthropology of South Asia at Oxford, publishing on the Himalayas, kinship theory and the Durkheimian Tradition. Since the 1980s he has also worked on Indo-European Cultural Comparativism.Greg Bailey, formerly reader in Sanskrit, is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Program in Asian Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has published translations and studies of the Gaṇeśa Purāṇa, Bhartṛhari's Śatakatrayam and books on the god Brahmā, early Buddhism, contemporary Australian society and many articles on Sanskrit literature. Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips (2012) and Rebirth and the Stream of Life: A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics (2016). Texts (1988) and of articles on Socrates, Plato and the Neoplatonists. Other research interests include comparative philosophy, and philosophy and mysticism in South Asia. Mikel Burley is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His publications include Classical Sāṃkhya and Yoga: An Indian Metaphysics of Experience (2007), Contemplating Religious Forms of John Bussanich is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He co-edited with Nicholas D. Smith The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (2013). He is the author of The One and its Relation to Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on SelectedAditi Chaturvedi is a doc...

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“…yaka Upanis . ad as a whole'; 67 that "parts of the late Vedic literature may well have been composed at the time of Pān . ini, and perhaps even at the time of Patañjali"; 68 and most significantly that the Yājñavalkyakān .…”

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“…a was composed "at a time after the Buddha". 69 How seriously is this evidence to be taken? Bronkhorst is probably correct in believing that Kātyāyana and Patañjali refer to the Yājñavalkyakān .…”

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The Buddha's ‘skill in means’ and the genesis of the five aggregate teaching Winner of the 2nd Professor Mary Boyce Award

Wynne¹

2010

J.R. Asiat. Soc. G.B. Irel.

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The problem tackled in this article is ambitious. Through examination of how certain fundamental teachings of the Buddha originated – the author argues that those teachings must indeed go back to the Buddha himself. Thus the author builds a chain of argument which creates hypothetical links rather than declaring ‘a priori’ that links and connection cannot be established.This article argues that the Alagaddūpama Sutta, an important early Buddhist text, portrays the Buddha in the process of formulating his thoughts. If so it contradicts the myth that the Buddha awakened to the entire Buddhist Dharma on one occasion, and should be dated to the fourth century bce. Such an antiquity, and peculiar didactic structure suggests that the text contains authentic teachings of the Buddha.

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Greater Magadha

Cited by 171 publications

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Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health

Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought

The Buddha's ‘skill in means’ and the genesis of the five aggregate teaching Winner of the 2nd Professor Mary Boyce Award

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