فهرست مطالب
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on transliteration
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The subtle body of vital presence in contemplative practices of Abhinavagupta’s Trika Śaivism and Longchenpa’s Great Perfection
2 Daoist body-maps and meditative praxis
3 Yuasa Yasuo’s contextualization of the subtle body: phenomenology and practice
4 Dismembering demons: spatial and bodily representations in the fifteenth-century Ekaliṅgamāhātmya
5 Subtle body: rethinking the body’s subjectivity through Abhinavagupta body
6 Embodied experience in the Mahārthamañjarī of Maheśvarānanda
7 Sensing the ascent: embodied elements of Muhammad’s heavenly journey in Nizami Ganjavi’s Treasury of Mysteries
8 Bodies in translation: esoteric conceptions of the Muslim body in early-modern South Asia
9 The prostituted body of war: U.S. military prostitution in South Korea as a site of spiritual activism
10 Frisky methods: subtle bodies, epistemological pluralism and creative scholarship
11 Bliss and bodily disorientation: the autophagous mysticism of Georges Bataille and the Taittirīya Upaniṣad
Index