The Amrtasiddhi and Amrtasiddhimula: The Earliest Texts of the Hathayoga Tradition
Edited and Translated by James Mallinson and Peter-Daniel Szanto
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ISBN 13
9788184702422
Binding
Softcover
Language
Sanskrit and English
Year
2022
The book introduces, edits, and translates the two earliest texts of the hathayoga tradition, the Amrtasiddhi and the Amrtasiddhimala (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. The book is addressed primarily to scholars, but will also be of interest to students and practitioners of yoga.