Yoga in Practice / / ed. by David Gordon White.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Birch, Jason,; Chapple, Christopher Key,; Dalton, Jacob P.,; Dundas, Paul,; Ernst, Carl W.,; Fitzgerald, James L.,; Gold, Ann Grodzins,; Gold, Daniel,; Hackett, Paul G.,; Hayes, Glen Alexander,; Jackson, Roger R.,; Jacobsen, Knut A.,; Larson, Gerald James,; Malinar, Angelika,; Mallinson, James,; Pinch, William R.,; Qvarnström, Olle,; Ruff, Jeffrey Clark,; Timalsina, Sthaneshwar,; Vasudeva, Somadeva,; Wallace, Vesna A.,; White, David Gordon,; Wujastyk, Dominik,
• HerausgeberIn: White, David Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Readings in Religions ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- CONTENTS BY TRADITION -- CONTENTS BY COUNTRY -- Contributors -- Yoga, Brief History of an Idea -- Note for Instructors -- Foundational Yoga Texts -- 1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Āyurveda -- 2. A Prescription for Yoga and Power in the Mahābhārata -- 3. Yoga Practices in the Bhagavadgītā -- 4. Pātañjala Yoga in Practice -- 5. Yoga in the Yoga Upanisads: Disciplines of the Mystical OM Sound -- 6. The Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavāsistha -- 7. A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation -- Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu Tantric Traditions -- 8. A Digambara Jain Description of the Yogic Path to Deliverance -- 9 Saraha's Queen Dohās -- 10. The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva -- 11. The Six-Phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapāni -- 12. Eroticism and Cosmic Transformation as Yoga: The Ātmatattva of the Vaisnava Sahajiyās of Bengal -- 13. The Transport of the Hamsas: A Śākta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in Eighteenth-Century Benares -- Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs -- 14. The Original Goraksaśataka -- 15. Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the "Bālnāth Tillā" 15 -- 16. Yogic Language in Village Performance: Hymns of the Householder Nāths -- Yoga in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods -- 17. The Yoga System of the Josmanīs -- 18. Songs to the Highest God (Īśvara) of Sāmkhya-Yoga -- 19. Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya -- 20. Theos Bernard and the Early Days of Tantric Yoga in America -- 21. Universalist and Missionary Jainism: Jain Yoga of the Terāpanthī Tradition -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Index