The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali : : A Biography / / David Gordon White.
Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dramatis Personae
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies
- Chapter 2. Patanjali, the Yoga Sutra, and Indian Philosophy
- Chapter 3. Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the Western "Discovery" of the Yoga Sutra
- Chapter 4. Yoga Sutra Agonistes: Hegel and the German Romantics
- Chapter 5. Rajendralal Mitra: India's Forgotten Pioneer of Yoga Sutra Scholarship
- Chapter 6. The Yoga of the Magnetosphere: The Yoga Sutra and the Theosophical Society
- Chapter 7. Swami Vivekananda and the Mainstreaming of the Yoga Sutra
- Chapter 8. The Yoga Sutra in the Muslim World
- Chapter 9. The Yoga Sutra Becomes a Classic
- Chapter 10. Ishvara
- Chapter 11. Journeys East, Journeys West: The Yoga Sutra in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 12. The Strange Case of T. M. Krishnamacharya
- Chapter 13. Yoga Sutra 2.0
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index