The classical reveries of modern yoga: Patañjali and constructive orientalism

Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 77-99

  Singleton, Mark ^a  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United States)

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