The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography

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1. Yoga Sutra, three that stand out are, first, the encyclopedic Yoga: India’s Philosophy of Meditation, edited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008).
2. Michel Angot’s Le Yoga-Sutra de Patanjali. Le Yoga-Bhasya de Vyasa avec des extraits du Yoga-Varttika de Vijnana-Bhiksu (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008)
3. Yoga Sutra. And third, in his The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (New York: North Point Press, 2009)
4. Stuart Sarbacker, Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005)
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7. Rosane Rocher, “British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century,” and David Ludden, “Oriental Empiricism: Transformations in Colonial Knowledge,” both in Orientalism and the Post-Colonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, ed. Carol Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (PhilaWhite delphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993)
8. David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773–1835 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
9. The history of Indian and European perceptions of yogis is documented in David Gordon White, Sinister Yogis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 198–254.
10. Peter Michael Valdina, “Reading the Yoga Sutra in Colonial India” (Emory University, 2013).
11. Robert Bernasconi, “With What Must the History of Philosophy Begin? Hegel’s Role in the Debate on the Place of India within the History of Philosophy,” in Hegel’s History of Philosophy, ed. David A. Duquette (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), 35–49
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14. The story of the Theosophists’ impact on Western and Indian appreciations of Yoga philosophy is best told by Catherine Albanese in chapter 6 (“Metaphysical Asia”) of her A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 330–93
15. Elizabeth De Michelis in A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western Esotericism (New York and London: Continuum, 2004).
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18. Elizabeth De Michelis’s A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western Esotericism (New York and London: Continuum, 2004)
19. Dermot H. Killingly’s excellent study, “Yoga-Sutra IV, 2–3 and Vivekananda’s Interpretation of Evolution,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 18 (1990): 151–79.
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23. Shlomo Pines and Tuvia Gelblum in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 29, no. 2 (1966): 302–25
24. Christopher Key Chapple and John Thomas Casey in Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra’s Collection of Views on Yoga. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003)
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28. Joseph Alter’s Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004)
29. Surendranath Dasgupta, and the yoga guru Sivananda, was the author of Yoga, Immortality, and Freedom (New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1958; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009)
30. Cleo McNelly Kearns, T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and Belief (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
31. Harold Coward’s Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002).
32. A. G. Mohan and Ganesh Mohan: Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings (Boston: Shambhala, 2010).
33. Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
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35. M. Narasimhan and M. A. Jayashree, with an introduction by Mark Singleton, is contained in David Gordon White, ed., Yoga in Practice (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 337–52.
36. T.K.V. Desikachar, The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1999).
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39. Dominik Wujastyk, “The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Ayurveda,” in Yoga in Practice, ed. David Gordon White (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 31–42