Dharmamegha in yoga and yogācāra: the revision of a superlative metaphor.
The Pātañjalayogaśāstra concludes with a description of the pinnacle of yoga practice: a state of samādhi called dharmamegha, cloud of dharma. Yet despite the structural importance of dharmamegha in the soteriology of Pātañjala yoga, the śāstra itself does not say much about this term. Where we do f...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Indian Philosophy Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 605 - 636 |
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