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

Editor/Author White, David Gordon
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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ISBN: 978-0-69-114377-4
Category: Religion & Theology
Image Count: 2
Book Status: Available
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Tracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, Whites exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of Indias past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced today.

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Table of Contents

  • DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1 Reading the Yoga Sutra in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Challenges, Ancient Strategies
  • CHAPTER 2 Patanjali, the Yoga Sutra, and Indian Philosophy
  • CHAPTER 3 Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the Western “Discovery” of the Yoga Sutra
  • CHAPTER 4 Yoga Sutra Agonistes: Hegel and the German Romantics
  • CHAPTER 5 Rajendralal Mitra: India's Forgotten Pioneer of Yoga Sutra Scholarship
  • CHAPTER 6 The Yoga of the Magnetosphere: The Yoga Sutra and the Theosophical Society
  • CHAPTER 7 Swami Vivekananda and the Mainstreaming of the Yoga Sutra
  • CHAPTER 8 The Yoga Sutra in the Muslim World
  • CHAPTER 9 The Yoga Sutra Becomes a Classic
  • CHAPTER 10 Ishvara
  • CHAPTER 11 Journeys East, Journeys West: The Yoga Sutra in the Early Twentieth Century
  • CHAPTER 12 The Strange Case of T. M. Krishnamacharya
  • CHAPTER 13 Yoga Sutra 2.0
  • SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY