Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda
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Jason Eric Birch
SOAS University of London
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Year: 2018 | Doi: 10.18732/hssa.v6i0.25
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The research for this article was prompted by the question: were Yoga and 膧测耻谤惫别诲补 as intimately connected in premodern times as they to seem today? It attempts to give a preliminary answer by assessing the influence of 膧测耻谤惫别诲补 on a corpus of mediaeval Yoga texts, in terms of shared terminology, theory and praxis. The date of this corpus ranges from the eleventh to the nineteenth century CE, and all of its texts teach physical techniques and an ascetic state of dormant meditative absorption (蝉补尘腻诲丑颈), either as auxiliaries within a system of Yoga or as autonomous systems in themselves. The physical techniques became known as Ha峁環ayoga and the ascetic state of 蝉补尘腻诲丑颈 as 搁腻箩补测辞驳补, and the texts in which they appear posit the practice (补产丑测腻蝉补) of Yoga as the chief means to liberation (尘辞办峁). The article begins with a discussion of the terminology in these texts that is also found in the 叠峁沨补迟迟谤补测墨, that is, the 颁补谤补办补蝉补峁僪颈迟腻, the 厂耻艣谤耻迟补蝉补峁僪颈迟腻 and V膩gbha峁璦鈥檚 础峁ａ弓腻峁単补丑峁沝补测补蝉补峁僪颈迟腻. It proceeds to discuss the relevant theory (digestive fire, humoral theory, vital points, herbs) and praxis (腻蝉补苍补, 峁峁璳补谤尘补 and therapy or 肠颈办颈迟蝉腻) of the yoga texts in question in order to assess the possible influence of 膧测耻谤惫别诲补.
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