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Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice (2024)
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Birch, J. (2024). Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. École française d'Extrême-Orient

Writing in Varanasi in the sixteenth century, when the Mughal empire was at the height of its power, the monk Śivānandasarasvatī composed an extensive Sanskrit compendium on yoga entitled “The Wish-fulfilling Gem of Yoga” (Yogacintāmaṇi). Śivānanda w... Read More about Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice.

Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice (2024)
Book
Birch, J. (2024). Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. École française d'Extrême-Orient

Writing in Varanasi in the sixteenth century, when the Mughal empire was at the height of its power, the monk Śivānandasarasvatī composed an extensive Sanskrit compendium on yoga entitled “The Wish-fulfilling Gem of Yoga” (Yogacintāmaṇi). Śivānanda w... Read More about Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice.

The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga (2024)
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Birch, J. (2024). The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. École française d’Extrême-Orient

The Lineage of Immortals (Sanskrit Amaraugha) is the earliest account of a fourfold system of yoga in which a physical practice called Haṭha is taught as the means to a deep state of meditation known as Rājayoga. The Amaraugha was composed in Sanskri... Read More about The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga.

The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga (2024)
Book
Birch, J. (2024). The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. École française d’Extrême-Orient

The Lineage of Immortals (Sanskrit Amaraugha) is the earliest account of a fourfold system of yoga in which a physical practice called Haṭha is taught as the means to a deep state of meditation known as Rājayoga. The Amaraugha was composed in Sanskri... Read More about The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga.