Article: Yoga: The Indian Tradition.(Book Review)

Yoga: The Indian Tradition. Edited by Ian Whicher and David Carpenter. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. xii + 206.

For anyone seeking a popular book on yoga that offers a few easy hints on how to lighten the load of everyday stress or to regain comfort and psychosomatic health through a few minutes of weekly or daily yogic practice there is no point in reaching for Yoga: The Indian Tradition, edited by Ian Whicher and David Carpenter. This book would not be of much use to the general reader interested in yoga as the system of physical and mental fitness widely propagated in the West in teach-yourself handbooks, which are now available for purchase online. ...

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