Sinister Yogis

Name: Sinister Yogis
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ISBN: 9780226895147

ISBN-10: 0226895149

ISBN-13: 9780226895147

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Gordon White

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Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old aged. Marketed as a clear path to self-realization, mind expansion, and taut abs, yoga is also perceived as an ancient and unchanging Indian tradition based on the revelations of benign and limber sages. But this modern conception of yoga derives from nineteenth-century European spirituality,Sinister Yogisreveals, and the true story of yoga's origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and much more entertaining. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature,…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Note on Transliteration


Abbreviations



Tales of Sinister Yogis



Ceci n'est pas un Yogi



Embodied Ascent, Meditation, and Yogic Suicide



The Science of Entering Another Body



Yogi Gods



Mughal, Modern, and Postmodern Yogis


Notes


Bibliography


Index