The Hatha Yoga Project: Mapping Indian and Transnational Traditions of Physical Yoga through Philology and Ethnography

Project Information

HYP

Grant agreement ID: 647963

DOI

10.3030/647963

Project closed

EC signature date 6 November 2015

Start date 1 October 2015

End date 31 March 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 846 216,09

EU contribution

€ 1 846 122,34

Coordinated by

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (9)

Chapter 4: Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajrolīmudrā?

Author(s): James Mallinson
Published in: Yoga in Transformation - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 2018, Page(s) 181-222, ISBN 978-3-8471-0862-7
Publisher: V&R unipress
DOI: 10.14220/9783737008624.181

Haṭhayoga’s Early History - From Vajrayāna Sexual Restraint to Universal Somatic Soteriology

Author(s): James Mallinson
Published in: The Oxford History of Hinduism - Hindu Practice, 2020, Page(s) 177-199, ISBN 9780198733508
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198733508.003.0008

Haṭhayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism

Author(s): Jason Birch
Published in: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions - Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, 2020, Page(s) 451-479, ISBN 9789004432802
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004432802_021

The Quest for Liberation-in-Life - A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga

Author(s): Jason Birch
Published in: The Oxford History of Hinduism - Hindu Practice, 2020, Page(s) 200-242, ISBN 9780198733508
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198733508.003.0009

The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text

Author(s): James Mallinson
Published in: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions - Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, 2020, Page(s) 409-425, ISBN 9789004432802
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004432802_019

The Spiritual Body in Twentieth-Century Yoga

Author(s): Mark Singleton
Published in: Proceedings of the International Workshop, 'Modernization and Spiritual, Mental and Physical Practices: From Yoga to Reiki'., 2017
Publisher: Kyoto University

The scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy 1

Author(s): Mark Singleton, Borayin Larios
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, 2020, Page(s) 37-50, ISBN 9781351050753
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781351050753-5

David Frawley and Vedic Yoga

Author(s): Mark Singleton
Published in: Guenzi Caterina and Raphaël Voix, In the name of the Veda. Referring to Vedic Authority in India and Abroad, 2018
Publisher: Routledge

Chapter 3: The Proliferation of Āsana -s in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts

Author(s): Jason Birch
Published in: Yoga in Transformation - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 2018, Page(s) 101-180, ISBN 978-3-8471-0862-7
Publisher: V&R unipress
DOI: 10.14220/9783737008624.101

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Kālavañcana in the Konkan:How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga TraditionCheated Buddhism’s Death in India

Author(s): James Mallinson
Published in: Religions, Issue 10/4, 2019, Page(s) 273, ISSN 2077-1444
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel10040273

Are women entitled to become ascetics?An historical and ethnographic glimpse on female asceticism in Hindu religions

Author(s): Daniela Bevilacqua
Published in: Kervan — International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, Issue 21, 2017, Page(s) 50–79, ISSN 1825-263X
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.13135/1825-263x/2269

Old Tool for New Times

Author(s): Daniela Bevilacqua
Published in: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR), Issue 20, 2018, Page(s) 45, ISSN 0967-8948
Publisher: JBASR
DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v20i0.27

Let the <i>Sādhus</i> Talk: Ascetic Understanding of Haṭha Yoga and <i>Yogāsanas</i>

Author(s): Daniela Bevilacqua
Published in: Religions of South Asia, Issue 11/2-3, 2018, Page(s) 182-206, ISSN 1751-2689
Publisher: Indica et Buddhica
DOI: 10.1558/rosa.37023

Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda

Author(s): Jason Eric Birch
Published in: History of Science in South Asia, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) 1-83, ISSN 2369-775X
Publisher: History of Science in South Asia
DOI: 10.18732/hssa.v6i0.25

The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga

Author(s): Jason Birch
Published in: Journal of Indian Philosophy, Issue 47/5, 2019, Page(s) 947-977, ISSN 0022-1791
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10781-019-09401-5

The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity

Author(s): Jason Birch, Mark Singleton
Published in: Journal of Yoga Studies, Issue 2, 2019, Page(s) 3-70, ISSN 2664-1739
Publisher: Journal of Yoga Studies
DOI: 10.34000/joys.2019.v2.002

Monographic books (2)

Roots of Yoga

Author(s): James Mallinson, Mark Singleton
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India

Author(s): Mark Singleton
Published in: 2015, ISBN 9781315682570
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781315682570

Conference proceedings (1)

Yogi Insignia in Mughal Painting and Avadhi Romances

Author(s): James Mallinson
Published in: Proceedings of the SOAS Simon Digby Memorial Conference, 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Other (1)

Religious Modernity

Author(s): Mark Singleton
Published in: Translation of article by Sébastian Tank-Storper, in the English-language edition of Danièle Hervieu-Léger et Régine Azria (eds.) Dictionnaire des faits religieux, Paris: PUF), 2018
Publisher: PUF