Yoga in practice

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An anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. Focuses on the lived experiences in the many world of yoga.

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Full title :Yoga in practice / edited by David Gordon White.

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An anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. Focuses on the lived experiences in the many world of yoga.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 397 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780691140858, 0691140855, 9780691140865, 0691140863
oclc:ocn767864285
LC Classification:B132.Y6
Dewey Decimal:294.5436

Introduction ; Note to instructors / David Gordon White -- Foundational yoga texts: The path to liberation through yogic mindfulness in early Āyurveda / Dominik Wujastyk ; A prescription for yoga and power in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald ; Yoga practices in the Bhagavadgīta / Angelika Malinar ; Pātañjala yoga in practice / Gerald James Larson ; Yoga in the Yoga Upaniṣads : disciplines of the mystical OṂ sound / Jeffrey Clark Ruff ; The sevenfold yoga of the Yogavāsiṣṭha / Christopher Key Chapple ; A fourteenth-century Persian account of breath control and meditation / Carl W. Ernst -- Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu tantric traditions: A Digambara Jain description of the yogic path to deliverance / Paul Dundas ; Saraha's Queen Dohās / Roger R. Jackson ; The questions and answers of Vajrasattva / Jacob P. Dalton ; The six-phased yoga of the abbreviated wheel of time tantra (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapāṇi / Vesna A. Wallace ; Eroticism and cosmic transformation as yoga : the Ātmatattva of the Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyās of Bengal / Glen Alexander Hayes ; The transport of the Haṃsas : A Śakta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in eighteenth-century Benares / Somadeva Vasudeva -- Yo…