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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.

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)
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.

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.

On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (2023)
Book
Wujastyk, D., Birch, J., Klebanov, A., Parameswaran, M. K., Rimal, M., Chakraborty, D., Bhatt, H., Lele, V., & Mehta, P. (2023). On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1203

A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Suśruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian med... Read More about On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā.

On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (2023)
Book
Wujastyk, D., Birch, J., Klebanov, A., Parameswaran, M. K., Rimal, M., Chakraborty, D., Bhatt, H., Lele, V., & Mehta, P. (2023). On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1203

A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Suśruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian med... Read More about On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā.

Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism (2023)
Journal Article
Birch, J. E., & Hargreaves, J. (2023). Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism. Journal of yoga studies, 4, 31-82. https://doi.org/10.34000/JoYS.2023.V4.01

In this chapter, we formulate a corpus of premodern praxis manuals on yoga that were composed in the 18th and 19th century in rudimentary Sanskrit and vernacular languages, which were likely documenting collections of yoga postures (āsana) current a... Read More about Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism.

The Ocean of Yoga: An Unpublished Compendium Called the Yogārṇava (2022)
Journal Article
Gupta, S., & Birch, J. (2022). The Ocean of Yoga: An Unpublished Compendium Called the Yogārṇava. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 50(3), 345-385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-022-09504-6

The Yogārṇava (‘the ocean of yoga’) is a Sanskrit compendium on yoga that has not been published, translated or even mentioned in secondary literature on yoga. Citations attributed to it occur in several premodern commentaries and compendiums on yoga... Read More about The Ocean of Yoga: An Unpublished Compendium Called the Yogārṇava.