Yoga - Immortality and Freedom

Zusatztext "This is . . . a book that will . . . whet the appetite of your intellect. It also offers the reader so much more insight into the tenets of yoga than the multitude of self-help books on meditation and how-to-do-yoga will ever give. In Yoga: Immortality and Freedom , Eliade analyzes in detail a religion and tradition that for years was his lifestyle. Get ready for some massive reading." ---Minna Forsell, Metaspychology Online Reviews Informationen zum Autor Mircea EliadeTranslated from the French by Willard R. TraskWith a new introduction by David Gordon White Klappentext Translation of Le yoga: immortalite et liberte. Zusammenfassung Lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, this book provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mircea Eliade, Mircea/ Trask Eliade, Eliade Mircea
• Mitarbeit: David Gordon White (Einführung), White David Gordon (Einführung), Willard R. Trask (Übersetzung), Trask Willard R. (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.07.2009
• EAN: 9780691142036
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14203-6
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 215 mm x 35 mm
• Serien: Princeton University Press; Princeton Classic Editions; Princeton University Press; Princeton Classic Editions; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollinge; Works of Mircea Eliade
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Weitere Weltreligionen; HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga, RELIGION / Eastern, Yoga for exercise, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Religious life & practice, East Asian religions