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The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali : A Biography /
"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,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Lives of Great Religious Books; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dramatis Personae; Preface; Chapter1: Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies; Chapter2: Patanjali, the Yoga Sutra, and Indian Philosophy; Chapter 3: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the Western "Discovery" of the Yoga Sut ra; Chapter 4: Yoga Sutra Agonistes: Hegel and the German Romantics; Chapter5: Rajendralal Mitra: India's Forgotten Pioneer of Yoga Sutra Scholarship; Chapter6: The Yoga of the Magnetosphere: The Yoga Sutra and the Theosophical Society.
- Chapter 7: Swami Vivekananda and the Mainstreaming of the Yoga SutraChapter 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 the Further reading; Index.