Sinister Yogis [Hardback]
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| Author(s) : White, David Gordon |
| Publishers Price : £29.00 |
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| ISBN : 0226895130 | | EAN : 9780226895130 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 352 | | Size : 236 x 160mm | | Publisher : Chicago Univ Press | | Published : 2009 |
Category : Tantra: General
Category 2 : Yoga
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Synopsis:
This new book from the author of Kiss of the Yogini and Alchemical Body focuses on uncovering the hidden history of yoga's original practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, White discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities - which include raising the dead, possession, and levitation - to acquire power, money, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who don't give the appearance of being downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in a wider context.
"Prepare to be taken over completely by this final installment in White's "siddha" trilogy. These are no ordinary yogis, at least not in the way yogis have been conceived for many a generation, and not simply by Western scholars and spiritual entrepeneurs. And they are not figures of a literary imagination. They are flesh and bone-when they want to be- and they walked among us, making and remaking the world. White unravels a vast and interlacing literature on the theory and practice - and especially practitioners - of yoga." William A.Pinch, Wesleyan University.
"This is a riveting account of the early history of yoga and yogis in India that weighs perspectives of both the yogis and the public culture of yoga. The history of yoga practice, and of yogis, is finally receiving the critical attention from scholars that will alter the views made popular by modern yoga teachers who believe ther doctrines of mental and physical culture constitutes "classical yoga". David White's entertaining and intelligent account of yogis drawn largely from Hindi and Sanskrit sources will contribute enormously to this corrective project." Frederick M.Smith, University of Iowa. |
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