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| Copies | Stacks - B132.Y6 C555 2008 |
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| Descr. | xv, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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| Library Info | Stacks B132.Y6 C555 2008 Regular Loan |
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| Bibliogr. | Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index. |
| Contents | The Yoga tradition -- I: The practice of Yoga -- Sāṃkhya philosophy and Yoga practice -- Precepts and vows in Yoga and Jainism -- Imitation of animals in Yoga tradition: taming the sacred wild through Āsana practice -- Patañjali on mediation: undoing the thinking self -- II: Yoga and liberation -- Luminosity and Yoga -- Living liberation in Sāṃkhya and Yoga -- III: Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra -- Approaching the Yoga Sūtra -- The Yoga Sūtra of Patãnjali: continuous text and translation -- Translation methodology and grammatical analysis -- "Samādhi pāda" -- Sādhana pāda" -- "Vibhũti pāda" -- "Kaivalya pāda" -- IV: Interpreting Yoga -- Reading Patañjali without Vyāsa: a critique of four Yoga Sũtra passages -- The use of the feminine gender in Patañjali’s description of Yogic practices -- Contemporary expressions of Yoga. |
| Abstract | Gives an accessible explanation of yoga’s difficult philosophy, explains the ethics of yoga, the role of movement and breath, the processes of concentration and mediation, and the applications of yoga in daily life. |
| Language Note | English and Sanskrit (also romanized). |
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| Copies | Stacks - B132.Y6 C555 2008 |
| Sys. no. | 000585031 |
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