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CLASSICAL SAKHYA AND YOGA
Sakhya and Yoga are among the oldest and most influential systems of classical Indian thought and religious practice. In their classical forms they constitute two of the six major systems of Hindu philosophy, and their influence has been pervasive throughout Indian culture. Despite this, much in the core texts of Skhya and Yoga, the Sakhyakrik and Yogasutra, remains poorly understood. This book provides a thorough examination of Sakhya and Yoga. Placing particular emphasis on the metaphysical schema which underlies both systems, the author adeptly develops a new interpretation of these systems and exposes the weaknesses of standard views. He shows how SakhyaYoga metaphysics can be most coherently understood when regarded as an analysis of experience. Drawing upon existing sources and using insights from both Eastern and Western philosophy and religious practice, this comprehensive interpretation is respectful to the underlying spiritual purpose of the Indian systems, whilst illuminating the relation between the theoretical and practical dimensions of Sakhya and Yoga. The book fills a gap in current scholarship and will be of interest to those concerned with Indology, especially Indian philosophies and their similarities and differences with other traditions.
Mikel Burley received his PhD in Indian philosophy from the University of Bristol, and currently teaches in the School of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include Haha-Yoga: Its Context, Theory and Practice and numerous articles on both Western and Indian philosophy.
ROUTLEDGE HINDU STUDIES SERIES
Series Editor: Gavin Flood, University of Stirling
Former Series Editor: Francis X. Clooney, SJ,
Harvard University
The Routledge Hindu Studies Series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, intends the publication of constructive Hindu theological, philosophical and ethical projects aimed at bringing Hindu traditions into dialogue with contemporary trends in scholarship and contemporary society. The series invites original, high quality, research level work on religion, culture and society of Hindus living in India and abroad. Proposals for annotated translations of important primary sources and studies in the history of the Hindu religious traditions will also be considered.
EPISTEMOLOGIES AND THE LIMITATIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY
Doctrine in Mdhva Vednta
Deepak Sarma
A HINDU CRITIQUE OF BUDDHIST EPISTEMOLOGY
Kumrila on perception
The determination of perception chapter of Kumrilabhaas lokavrttika Translation and commentary
John Taber
AKARAS ADVAITA VEDNTA
A way of teaching
Jacqueline Hirst
ATTENDING KAS IMAGE
Caitanya Vaiava mrti-sev as devotional truth
Kenneth Russell Valpey
ADVAITA VEDANTA AND VAIAVISM
The philosophy of Madhusudana Sarasvati
Sanjukta Gupta
CLASSICAL SAKHYA AND YOGA
An Indian metaphysics of experience
Mikel Burley
First published 2007
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The Routledge Hindu Studies Series, published in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, intends primarily the publication of constructive Hindu theological, philosophical and ethical projects. The focus is on issues and concerns of relevance to readers interested in Hindu traditions in particular, yet also in the context of a wider range of related religious concerns that matter in todays world. The Series seeks to promote excellent scholarship and, in relation to it, an open and critical conversation among scholars and the wider audience of interested readers. Though contemporary in its purpose, the Series recognizes the importance of retrieving the classic texts and ideas, beliefs and practices, of Hindu traditions, so that the great intellectuals of these traditions may as it were become conversation partners in the conversations of today.
The Indian philosophical tradition known as Sakhya has attracted less attention from scholars than other systems of thought, particularly Vedanta. Yet Sakhya is an extremely important tradition. Although the developed system itself is probably quite late (not predating the Buddha who died around 400 BCE), Sakhya could arguably be said to lie at the root of Indian philosophical traditions both in the sense that Sakhya-like speculation can be traced to the very earliest developments, and in the sense that Sakhya categories are assumed and used by the later systems. The prototypical Indian philosophy is often taken in the West to be some kind of monism, yet Sakhya is an uncompromisingly dualist system that upholds an ontological distinction between self and matter or nature. Furthermore, it is one of the earliest traditions to offer a description of human experience; how contact with the world through the senses occurs, and how this contact is processed through our mental apparatus.
Mikel Burleys lucidly clear book is the first for a number of years to offer a historical and systematic study of Sakhya. Not only does the book present Sakhya as a system of historical interest or curiosity, it takes the tradition seriously as philosophy and engages with it in terms of philosophical debates in the West over realism and non-realism, offering a more nuanced interpretation. The book also offers a convincing account of the relationship between Sakhya and Yoga showing how they share a dualist metaphysics. One of the original features of the book is the way it deals with the problem of the fundamental categories or tattvas, having both a cosmological and psychological designation. On the one hand they seem to be presented as an account of how the universe unfolds in a causal sequence in which fundamental matter is transformed into multiple forms, on the other they are presented as an account of how human experience arises. The problem can be resolved, argues Burley, if we abandon a realistic and diachronic interpretation in favour of a reading that takes the
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