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 reform...

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