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Sinister Yogis by David Gordon White
Booksplease Price: £28.55Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from... -
Tantra in Practice by David Gordon White
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.84As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and... -
Yoga in Practice by David Gordon White
Booksplease Price: £43.62Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many... -
Religious Approaches to Death by David Gordon White 9781465226891
Booksplease Price: £101.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465226891Author David Gordon WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co... -
Myths of the Dog-man by David Gordon White 9780226895093
Booksplease Price: £30.43"An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely... -
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography by David Gordon White 9780691197074
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.62The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language... -
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White 9780226894997
Booksplease Price: £33.54David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. This comprehensive study draws upon the ancient Sanskrit and medieval... -
Daemons Are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium by David Gordon White 9780226714905
Booksplease Price: £31.37A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Daemons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and... -
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Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White 9780226894843
Booksplease Price: £33.24With "Kiss of the Yogini", David Gordon White sweeps away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, returning to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history... -
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Abū Rayḥān Al-Bīrūnī 9781479813216
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.14A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and... -
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī 9781479804139
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy, used by millions of yoga practitioners and... -
Yoga: Immortality and Freedom by Mircea Eliade 9780691279374
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth centuryIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western... -
A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism by Elizabeth De Michelis 9780826487728
Booksplease Price: £66.58A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda... -
The Heart of the Yogini: The Yoginihrdaya, a Sanskrit Tantric Treatise by Andre Padoux 9780199982332
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £24.63Though many practitioners of yoga and meditation are familiar with the Sri Cakra yantra, few fully understand the depth of meaning in this representation of the cosmos. Even fewer have been exposed... -
The Heart of the Yogini: The Yoginihrdaya, a Sanskrit Tantric Treatise by Andre Padoux 9780199982325
Booksplease Price: £117.40Though many practitioners of yoga and meditation are familiar with the Sri Cakra yantra, few fully understand the depth of meaning in this representation of the cosmos. Even fewer have been exposed... -
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig by Carol Volk 9780231103664
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53-- New RepublicThroughout history, the slaughter and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for role-playing and taboos, and at the center of practices that defined the boundaries between... -
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig by Carol Volk
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23-- New RepublicThroughout history, the slaughter and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for role-playing and taboos, and at the center of practices that defined the boundaries between... -
Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India by Matthew I. Robertson 9780197693605
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.47Personhood is central to the worldview of ancient India. Across voluminous texts and diverse traditions, the subject of the purusa, the Sanskrit term for "person," has been a constant source of... -
Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga by Keith Edward Cant^D'u 9780197665473
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.77This book examines the life of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogin named Sri Sabhapati Swami (Sri Sabhapati Svami or Capapati Cuvamikal, ca. 1828-1923/4) and his unique English,... -
Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara: Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra by Prem Saran
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book offers a social-scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. It is a self-reflexive study approached with an insider's empathy and the... -
A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India by Patton E. Burchett 9780231190329
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.05In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism...