The Encyclopedia of Yoga and Tantra
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Shambhala Publications08/16/2022Pages: 472Size: 6 x 9ISBN: 9781611801859DetailsThe ever-increasing popularity of Yoga and related practices makes a desktop reference like this indispensible. With over twenty-five hundred entries and extensive illustrations, this encyclopedia of key terms from the Yoga and Tantra traditions combines comprehensiveness with accessibility. Acclaimed Yoga scholar Georg Feuerstein has arranged and written entries in a manner that will inform rather than overwhelm the everyday reader, while at the same time it offers valuable references for professional researchers and historians of religion. This new edition includes information about contemporary Yoga teachers and also provides fuller descriptions and illustrations of Yoga poses and additional cross references.
Entries include:- Descriptions of the many yogic postures, known as āsanas
- The major and minor texts and scriptures
- Detailed discussions of the different forms of Yoga, including Bhakti, Hatha, and Jnāna
- The numerous gods and goddesses of Tantric tradition
- All the most essential names in Yoga and Tantra, from ancient adepts such as Patanjali and Shankara to modern masters like B.K.S. Iyengar and Krishnamacharya
- And much more . . .
RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioGeorg Feuerstein, PhD, (1947–2012) is internationally respected for his work on Yoga and is the author of over fifty books. He designed and taught several distance-learning courses on Yoga philosophy for Traditional Yoga Studies. For more information, go to www.traditionalyogastudies.com.
Praise"Sound, discerning, and endlessly useful. No serious student of Yoga can afford to be without it." —Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions
"Many books have been written on Yoga, but Feuerstein's is perhaps the best ever published." —Choice magazine
"All Westerners interested in Eastern philosophy and religion will soon wonder how they ever did without this volume at their side." —Jacob Needleman, author of The Heart of Philosophy
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