Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism

This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called ''yoga'' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O''Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the nineteenth-century to reframe the cultural period of the 1st – 5th centuries CE using categorical ma...