[PDF.12xw] The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

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 | #692467 in Books |  2014-05-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x5.50 x1.25l,.84 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Yoga fans who don't appreciate this book, might be too attached to their mythology of yoga|By SkepticMeditations|Was Patanjali a real person or a half-human, half-snake god? Was the Yoga Sutra a "classical" text? Where have our translations come from?

These and many other questions are explored in this biography of the Yoga Sutra. Firstly, Patanjali (first century| |"White's book, a contribution to Princeton's Lives of Great Religious Books series, delves into the short collection of verses that many contemporary practitioners believe--erroneously--to be the original, definitive guide to ancient yoga philosophy. A scholar

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 bee...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The "Yoga Sutra of Patanjali": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)   |  David Gordon White. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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