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Yoga in practice
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Princeton University Press
Publication Date
c2012
Language
English
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Introduction ; Note to instructors / David Gordon White
Foundational yoga texts: The path to liberation through yogic mindfulness in early Ayurveda / Dominik Wujastyk ; A prescription for yoga and power in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald ; Yoga practices in the Bhagavadgl̄tā / 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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9780691140865
9780691140858
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