Yoga [electronic resource]: The Indian Tradition
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2002
Publisher:
Routledge
Place of Publication:
New York
Sources ID:
111921
Collection:
Origins of Yoga Practice and Philosophy
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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The popular perception of yoga in the West remains for the most part that of a physical fitness program, largely divorced from its historical and spiritual roots. The essays collected here provide a sense of the historical emergence of the classical system presented by PataƱjali, a careful examination of the key elements, overall character and contemporary relevance of that system (as found in the Yoga Sutra) and a glimpse of some of the tradition's many important ramifications in later Indian religious history.