The 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 . . .