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Yoga : The Indian Tradition - David Carpenter

Yoga

The Indian Tradition

By: David Carpenter (Editor), Ian Whicher (Editor)

Hardcover | 20 March 2003 | Edition Number 1

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The Indian Tradition of yoga, first codified in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali in the third or fourth century CE, constitutes one of the world's earliest and most influential traditions of spiritual practice. It is a tradition that, by the time of Patanjali, already had an extensive (if obscure) prehistory and one that was to have, after Patanjali, an extraordinarily rich and diverse future. As a tradition, yoga has been far from monolithic. It has embraced a variety of practices and orientations, borrowing from and influencing a vast array of Indic religious traditions down through the centuries. Recent years have witnessed an increased production in scholarly works on the yoga tradition, which have helped to chart this complex and multifaceted evolution and to demonstrate the important role that it has played in the development of India's religious and philosophical traditions. And yet the popular perception of yoga in the West remains for the most part that of a physical fitness program, largely divorced from its historical and spiritual roots. The essays collected here provide a sense of the historical emergence of the classical system presented by Pata? jali, a careful examination of the key elements, overall character and contemporary relevance of that system (as found in the Yoga Sutra ) and a glimpse of some of the tradition's many important ramifications in later Indian religious history.
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'What is distinctive about this volume is its attention to careful historical analysis, a focus on the practice of yoga, and critical philosophical reflection.' - Gerald James Larson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Journal of American Oriental Society 128.1 (2008)

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