Yoga Sutra of Patanjali A Biography

Name: Yoga Sutra of Patanjali A Biography
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ISBN: 9780691143774

ISBN-10: 0691143773

ISBN-13: 9780691143774

Edition: 2014

Authors: David Gordon White

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Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Virtually forgotten in India for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the West, the Yoga Sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status--and translated into more than forty languages--only in the course of the past forty years.White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/25/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 4.84" wide x 7.83" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English