Yoga in practice

by David Gordon White

Paperback, 2012

Series

Publication

Imprint: Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, c2012. Responsibility: David Gordon White. OCLC Number: 890830206. Physical: xii, 397 pages ; 24 cm. Features: Includes glossary and index.

Call number

CR / White

Barcode

BK-07491

ISBN

9780691140865

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Religious Studies

CSS Library Notes

Description: Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"--yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers, and of course, the yogas of mind and body so popular today. Yoga in Practice is an anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. This one-of-a-kind sourcebook features elegant translations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and even Islamic yogic writings, many of them being made available in English for the very first time. Collected here are ancient, colonial, and modern texts reflecting a broad range of genres, from an early medical treatise in Sanskrit to Upanishadic verses on sacred sounds; from a Tibetan catechetical dialogue to funerary and devotional songs still sung in India today; and from a 1930s instructional guide by the grandfather of contemporary yoga to the private papers of a pioneer of tantric yoga in America. Emphasizing the lived experiences to be found in the many worlds of yoga, Yoga in Practice includes David Gordon White's informative general introduction as well as concise introductions to each reading by the book's contributors -- from back cover

Table of Contents:
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 --
Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs: The original Gorakṣaśataka / James Mallinson ; Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the "Bālnāth Ṭillā" / William R. Pinch ;
Yogic language in village performance: hymns of the householder Nāths / Ann Grodzins Gold and Daniel Gold --
Yoga in the colonial and post-colonial periods: The yoga system of the Josmanīs / Sthaneshwar Timalsina ;
Songs to the highest god (Īśvara) of Sāṃkhya-Yoga / Knut A. Jacobsen ;
Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya / Mark Singleton, M. Narasimhan and M.A. Jayashree ;
Theos Bernard and the early days of tantric yoga in America / Paul G. Hackett ;
Universalist and missionary Jainism : Jain yoga of the Terāpanthī tradition / Olle Qvarnström and Jason Birch.

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Physical description

xii, 397 p.; 24 cm

Description

Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"--yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers, and of course, the yogas of mind and body so popular today. Yoga in Practice is an anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. This one-of-a-kind sourcebook features elegant translations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and even Islamic yogic writings, many of them being made available in English for the very first time. Collected here are ancient, colonial, and modern texts reflecting a broad range of genres, from an early medical treatise in Sanskrit to Upanishadic verses on sacred sounds; from a Tibetan catechetical dialogue to funerary and devotional songs still sung in India today; and from a 1930s instructional guide by the grandfather of contemporary yoga to the private papers of a pioneer of tantric yoga in America. Emphasizing the lived experiences to be found in the many worlds of yoga, Yoga in Practice includes David Gordon White's informative general introduction as well as concise introductions to each reading by the book's contributors.… (more)