Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas

Author
Not available
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Published
20200401
ISBN
9781438477947
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-1)

Description

In Living Landscapes, Christopher Key Chapple looks at the world of ritual as enacted in three faiths of India. He begins with an exploration of the relationship between the body and the world as found in the cosmological cartography of S??khya philosophy, which highlights the interplay between consciousness (puru?a) and activity (prak?ti), a process that gives rise to earth, water, fire, air, and space.