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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Gordon White |
| ISBN: | 9780226895130 0226895130 |
| OCLC Number: | 302099756 |
| Description: | xxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | David Gordon White. |
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Abstract:
Focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, this title discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural.
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"Sinister Yogis... successfully provides a fuller, more contextualized history of yoga, opening up some of the elisions that come when a tradition goes cross-cultural." (Times Literary Supplement) "This wondrously captivating, richly detailed book is a must for anyone interested in conceptions of the Indian yogi and of yogic practice." (Choice)" Read more...
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