Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

Roots of yoga / translated and edited with an introduction by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton.

View full image

[London] UK : Penguin Books, [2017]

Yoga -- Early works to 1800.

Yoga -- History.

0241253047 (paperback)

9780241253045 (paperback)

Penguin classics.

xl, 540 pages ; 20 cm.

Yoga -- Preliminaries -- Posture -- Breath-control -- The yogic body -- Yogic seals -- Mantra -- Withdrawal, fixation and meditation -- Samadhi -- Yogic powers -- Liberation.

Yoga is hugely popular around the world today, yet until now little has been known of its roots. This book collects, for the first time, core teachings of yoga in their original form, translated and edited by two of the world's foremost scholars of the subject. It includes a wide range of texts from different schools of yoga, languages and eras: among others, key passages from the early Upanisads and the Mahabharata , and from the Tantric, Buddhist and Jaina traditions, with many pieces in scholarly translation for the first time. Covering yoga's varying definitions across systems, models of the esoteric and physical bodies, and its most important practices, such as posture, breath control, sensory withdrawal and meditation, Roots of Yoga is a unique and essential source of knowledge.

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal