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Baier, Karl and Maas, Philipp A and Preisendanz, Karin

Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - New Delhi Dev Publishers and Distributors 2020 - 630p

1. Yoga in South Asia and Tibet
Some Probematic Yoga Sutra-s and Their Buddhist Background .......21
Sthirasukham Asanam : Posture and Performance in Classical Yoga and Beyond ......49
The Proliferation of Asana -s in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts .....101
Yoga and Sex : What is the Purpose of Vajrolimudra? ..181
Yoga in the Daily Routine of the Pancaratrins ...............223
The Transformation of Yoga in Medieval Maharashtra....259
On al-Biruni`s Kitab Patangal and the Patanjalayogasastra .......283
Tibetan Yoga: Somatic Practie in Vajrayana Buddhism and Dzogchen .................335
Part B Globalised Yoga
Yoga within Viennese Occultism : Carl Kellner and Co. ..........387
Yoga, Nature Cure and Perfect Health ......439
Samkhya in Transcultural InterPretation : Shri Anirvan ........463
Christian Responses to Yoga in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century .............485
Following the Transcultural Circulation of Bodily Practices .......505
Living 4 Giving : Politics of Affect and Emotional Regimes in Global Yoga .........529
Spaces of Yoga Towards a Non - Essentialist Understanding of Yoga ..........549
Naga, Siddha and Sage: Visions of Patanjali as an Authority on Yoga ......................575

ISBN: 9789387496309

Dewey Class. No.: S34 / B149