This book introduces, edits, and translates the two earliest texts of the hathayoga tradition, the Amrtasiddhi and the Amrtasiddhimula (which survives only in Tibetan translation). Basing their study on a bilingual manuscript, an extremely rare phenomenon, the authors argue that the origins of hathayoga are found in an eclectic tantric Buddhist milieu, probably active in the second half of the 11th century CE. The texts provide fundamental and later very influential teachings on the nature of the yogic body, psycho-physical practices centered on manipulating bindu, the types of practitioners, and much more.

ISBN 13: 9788184702422

ISBN 10: 8184702426

Year: 2021

Language: ENGLISH, SANSKRIT

Pages etc.: xii+203p., ind., 24cm.

Binding: Paperback

Subject(s): Philosophy