The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali : a biography

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"The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali : a biography"
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David Gordon White
出版者
  • Princeton University Press
出版年月
  • 2019
書籍サイズ
22 cm
シリーズ名/番号
  • : pbk

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"First paperback printing, 2019"--T.p. verso

Summary: "Consisting 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"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index

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