Yoga in Transformation Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
"This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of...
| Otros Autores: | , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Göttingen
V&R unipress
2018
Gottingen : 2018. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437918006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Some problematic yoga sutra and their Buddhist background / Dominik Wujastyk
- "Sthirasukham Āsanam": posture and performance in classical yoga and beyond / Philipp A. Maas
- The proliferation of Āsana-s in late-medieval yoga texts / Jason Birch
- Yoga and sex: what is the purpose of Vajrolītnudrā? / James Mallinson
- Yoga in the daily routine of the Pāñcarātrins / Marion Rastelli
- The transformation of yoga in medieval Maharashtra / Catharina Kiehnle
- On al-Bīrūnī's Kitāb Pātanğal and the Pātañjalayogaśastra / Philipp A. Maas, Noémie Verdon
- Tibetan yoga: Somatic practice in Vajrayāna buddhism and Dzogchen / Ian A. Baker
- Yoga within Viennese occultism: Carl Kellner and co. / Karl Baier
- Yoga, nature cure and "perfect" health: the purity of the fluid body in an impure world / Joseph S. Alter
- Sāmkhya in transcultural interpretation: Shri Anirvan (Śrī Anirvāna) and Lizelle Reymond / Maya Burger
- Christian responses to yoga in the second half of the twentieth century / Anand Amaladass
- Following the transcultural circulation of bodily practices: modern yoga and the corporeality of mantras / Beatrix Hauser
- Living4giving : politics of affect and emotional regimes in global yoga / Anne Koch
- Spaces of yoga: towards a non-essentialist understanding of yoga / Suzanne Newcombe
- Nāga, Siddha and sage: visions of Patañjali as an authority on yoga / Gudrun Bühnemann.
