The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali (eBook)

A Biography

David Gordon White (Autor)

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2014
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5005-1 (ISBN)

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David Gordon White is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Yoga in Practice (Princeton) and Sinister Yogis.

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The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting 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, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Virtually forgotten in India for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the West, the Yoga Sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty years.White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth century. First introduced to the West by the British Orientalist Henry Thomas Colebrooke, the Yoga Sutra was revived largely in Europe and America, and predominantly in English. White brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the Yoga Sutra led to its revered place in popular culture today. Tracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, White's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of India's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Lives of Great Religious Books
• Reihe/Serie: Lives of Great Religious Books
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Schlagworte: Advaita Vedanta • Agama (Hinduism) • akbar • Al-Biruni • Ancient India • aphorism • Asceticism • Atman • Bhagavad Gita • Bhashya • Brahmin • Brahmo Samaj • Buddhi • Buddhism • Buddhism and Jainism • Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit • charaka samhita • Dayananda Saraswati • Dharmasastra • Eastern philosophy • Ganganath Jha • Gerald James Larson • Hatha Yoga • Henry Thomas Colebrooke • Hindu • Hinduism • Hindu Law • hindu philosophy • Hindu texts • Hiranyagarbha • Indian Philosophy • Indology • Ishvara • Islam • Iyengar • Kapila • Krishna • Kriya Yoga • Lecture • Monastery • Muslim • Nathamuni • Neo-Vedanta • Nyaya • Old Javanese • Pandit • Patanjali • Philosopher • Philosophy • prak?ti • Preface (liturgy) • Puranas • purusha • Raja Yoga • Rajendralal Mitra • Ramakrishna Mission • Ramanuja • Reincarnation • Religion • Religious order • religious text • Samadhi • Samkhya • Samkhyakarika • Sanskrit • SCHOLASTICISM • shaivism • Shastra • Smriti • South India • Spirituality • Sri Vaishnavism • Surendranath Dasgupta • Sutra • Swami • Swami Vivekananda • Tantra • Tantras • Theism • Theology • Three Yogas • Tirumalai Krishnamacharya • treatise • Upanishads • Vaisheshika • Vaishnavism • Varanasi • Vedanta • vedas • Vijnanabhiksu • Vishnu • Vyasa • Writing • Yajnavalkya • Yoga Makaranda • Yoga (philosophy) • Yoga Sutras of Patanjali • yoga vasistha • Yoga Yajnavalkya • Yogi
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5005-3 / 1400850053
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5005-1 / 9781400850051