Yoga in Practice

Contents by Tradition viiContents by Country ixContributors xiIntroduction by David Gordon White 1Note for Instructors by David Gordon White 24Foundational Yoga Texts 29Chapter 1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Apyurveda by Dominik Wujastyk 31 Chapter 2. A Prescription for Yoga and Power in the Mahabharata by James L. Fitzgerald 43Chapter 3. Yoga Practices in the Bhagavadgita by Angelika Malinar 58Chapter 4. Ptanjala Yoga in Practice by Gerald James Larson 73Chapter 5. Yoga in the Yoga Upanisads: Disciplines of the Mystical OM Sound by Jeffrey Clark Ruff 97Chapter 6. The Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavasistha by Christopher Key Chapple 117Chapter 7. A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation by Carl W. Ernst 133Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu Tantric Traditions 141Chapter 8. A Digambara Jain Description of the Yogic Path to Deliverance by Paul Dundas 143Chapter 9. Saraha's Queen Dohas by Roger R. Jackson 162Chapter 10. The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva by Jacob P. Dalton 185Chapter 11. The Six-Phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra (Laghuklacakratantra) according to Vajrapni by Vesna A. Wallace 204Chapter 12. Eroticism and Cosmic Transformation as Yoga: The Atmatattva of the Vaisnava Sahajiyas of Bengal by Glen Alexander Hayes 223Chapter 13. The Transport of the Hamsas: A Sakta Rasalila as Rajayoga in Eighteenth-Century Benares by Somadeva Vasudeva 242Yoga of the Nath Yogis 255Chapter 14. The Original Goraksasataka by James Mallinson 257Chapter 15. Nath Yogis, Akbar, and the "Balnath Tilla" by William R. Pinch 273Chapter 16. Yogic Language in Village Performance: Hymns of the Householder Naths by Ann Grodzins Gold and Daniel Gold 289Yoga in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods 307Chapter 17. The Yoga System of the Josman?s by Sthaneshwar Timalsina 309Chapter 18. Songs to the Highest God (Isvara) of Samkhya-Yoga by Knut A. Jacobsen 325Chapter 19. Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya by Mark Singleton, M.Narasimhan, and M. A. Jayashree 337Chapter 20. Theos Bernard and the Early Days of Tantric Yoga in America by Paul G. Hackett 353Chapter 21. Universalist and Missionary Jainism: Jain Yoga of the Terapanthi Tradition by Olle Qvarnstrom and Jason Birch 365Glossary of Foreign Terms 383Index 389