Yoga in practice / edited by David Gordon White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, David Gordon.

Series:

Princeton readings in religions

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoga.

Yoga--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 387 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Introduction ; Note to instructors / David Gordon White

Foundational yoga texts. 1. The path to liberation through yogic mindfulness in early Ayurveda / Dominik Wujastyk ; 2. A prescription for yoga and power in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald ; 3. Yoga practices in the Bhagavadgl̄tā / Angelika Malinar ; 4. Pātañjala yoga in practice / Gerald James Larson ; 5. Yoga in the Yoga Upaniṣads : disciplines of the mystical OṂ sound / Jeffrey Clark Ruff ; 6. The sevenfold yoga of the Yogavāsiṣṭha / Christopher Key Chapple ; 7. A fourteenth-century Persian account of breath control and meditation / Carl W. Ernst

Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu tantric traditions. 8. A Digambara Jain description of the yogic path to deliverance / Paul Dundas ; 9. Saraha's Queen Dohās / Roger R. Jackson ; 10. The questions and answers of Vajrasattva / Jacob P. Dalton ; 11. The six-phased yoga of the abbreviated wheel of time tantra (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapāṇi / Vesna A. Wallace ; 12. Eroticism and cosmic transformation as yoga : the Ātmatattva of the Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyās of Bengal / Glen Alexander Hayes ; 13. The transport of the Haṃsas : A Śakta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in eighteenth-century Benares / Somadeva Vasudeva

Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs. 14. The original Gorakṣaśataka / James Mallinson ; 15. Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the "Bālnāth Ṭillā" / William R. Pinch ; 16. Yogic language in village performance: hymns of the householder Nāths / Ann Grodzins Gold ; Daniel Gold

Yoga in the colonial and post-colonial periods. 17. The yoga system of the Josmanīs / Sthaneshwar Timalsina ; 18. Songs to the highest god (Īśvara) of Sāṃkhya-Yoga / Knut A. Jacobsen ; 19. Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya / Mark Singleton ; M. Narasimhan ; M.A. Jayashree ; 20. Theos Bernard and the early days of tantric yoga in America / Paul G. Hackett ; 21. Universalist and missionary Jainism : Jain yoga of the Terāpanthī tradition / Olle Qvarnström ; Jason Birch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691140865

0691140863

OCLC:

724664140