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Article: Yoga: The Indian Tradition.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Yoga: The Indian Tradition. Edited by IAN WHICHER AND DAVID CARPENTER. LONDON: ROUTLEDGE-CURZON, 2003. Pp. xii + 206.
Perhaps the most difficult problem in dealing with yoga is to determine precisely what is meant by the term. One approach is to allow for the greatest diversity. In such a broad approach the term "yoga" may be taken to refer to any of the sets of ascetic spiritual practices, involving breath exercises, disciplined bodily postures, and so forth, characteristic of South Asian religious traditions. This would include Hindu. Buddhist, Jain, Tantric. Sikh, and even Sufi religious traditions in South Asia from the time of the Indus Valley civilization ...