| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 352 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 Yogis reveals, 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 focu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-335) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Yogis -- India -- History
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Yoga.
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Yoga
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Yoga (philosophy)
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
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Yoga
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Yogis
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Yoga
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226895154 |
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0226895157 |
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1282679392 |
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9781282679399 |
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