Sarbacker Stuart Ray. Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga

NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. — 189 p. — ISBN: 0791465535 (ISBN13: 9780791465530)A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. Author Stuart Ray Sarbacker explores the fascinating, contrasting perceptions that meditation leads to the attainment of divine, or numinous, power, and to complete escape from worldly existence, or cessation. Sarbacker demonstrates that these two dimensions of spiritual experience have affected the doctrine and cultural significance of yoga from its origins to its contemporary practice.Method and the Study of Meditation
Sources and Definitions
Reinterpreting Religious Experience
Yoga, Shamanism, and Buddhism: A New Phenomenology
The Debate over Dialogue: Classical Yoga and Buddhism in Comparison
Traditions in Transition: Meditative Concepts in the Development of Tantric Sadhana
Meditation, Phenomenology, and the Concept of Samadhi