Yoga in Practice

Frontmatter -- Contents -- CONTENTS BY TRADITION -- CONTENTS BY COUNTRY -- Contributors -- Yoga, Brief History of an Idea / White, David Gordon -- Note for Instructors / White, David Gordon -- Foundational Yoga Texts -- 1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Āyurveda / Wujastyk...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- CONTENTS BY TRADITION -- CONTENTS BY COUNTRY -- Contributors -- Yoga, Brief History of an Idea / White, David Gordon -- Note for Instructors / White, David Gordon -- Foundational Yoga Texts -- 1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Āyurveda / Wujastyk, Dominik -- 2. A Prescription for Yoga and Power in the Mahābhārata / Fitzgerald, James L. -- 3. Yoga Practices in the Bhagavadgītā / Malinar, Angelika -- 4. Pātañjala Yoga in Practice / Larson, Gerald James -- 5. Yoga in the Yoga Upanisads: Disciplines of the Mystical OM Sound / Ruff, Jeffrey Clark -- 6. The Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavāsistha / Chapple, Christopher Key -- 7. A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation / Ernst, Carl W. -- Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu Tantric Traditions -- 8. A Digambara Jain Description of the Yogic Path to Deliverance / Dundas, Paul -- 9 Saraha's Queen Dohās / Jackson, Roger R. -- 10. The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva / Dalton, Jacob P. -- 11. The Six-Phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapāni / Wallace, Vesna A. -- 12. Eroticism and Cosmic Transformation as Yoga: The Ātmatattva of the Vaisnava Sahajiyās of Bengal / Hayes, Glen Alexander -- 13. The Transport of the Hamsas: A Śākta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in Eighteenth-Century Benares / Vasudeva, Somadeva -- Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs -- 14. The Original Goraksaśataka / Mallinson, James -- 15. Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the "Bālnāth Tillā" 15 / Pinch, William R. -- 16. Yogic Language in Village Performance: Hymns of the Householder Nāths / Gold, Ann Grodzins / Gold, Daniel -- Yoga in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods -- 17. The Yoga System of the Josmanīs / Timalsina, Sthaneshwar -- 18. Songs to the Highest God (Īśvara) of Sāmkhya-Yoga / Jacobsen, Knut A. -- 19. Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya -- 20. Theos Bernard and the Early Days of Tantric Yoga in America / Hackett, Paul G. -- 21. Universalist and Missionary Jainism: Jain Yoga of the Terāpanthī Tradition / Qvarnström, Olle / Birch, Jason -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung