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Jul 2024
49m 11s

What is Yoga?

FILIP HOLM
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Sources/Recomended Reading:


Bharati, Agehananda (1965). "The Tantric Tradition". B.I. Publications.


Bhattacharyya, N.N. (2005). "History of the Tantric Religion". Second Revised Edition. Manohar.


Bryant, Edwin F. (translated by) (2009). "The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary ". North Point Press.


Ernst, Carl W. (1996). "Sufism and Yoga according to Muhammad Ghawth". University of North Carolina.


Mallinson, James & Mark Singleton (2017). "Roots of Yoga". Penguin Classics.


Olivelle, Patrick (translated by) (2008). "Upanisads". Oxford University Press.


Samuel, Geoffrey (2008). "The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century". Cambridge University Press.


Wallis, Christopher D. (2013). "Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History and Practice of a Timeless Tradition". Mattamayura.


White, David Gordon (2000). "Tantra in Practice". Princeton University Press.



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