By James Mallinson

Describing the most very important practices of hathayoga (khecarimudra), the Khecarividya of Adinatha is gifted the following to an English-speaking readership for the 1st time. the writer, James Mallinson, attracts on thirty Sanskrit works, in addition to unique fieldwork among yogins in India who use the perform, to illustrate how prior tantric yogic ideas constructed and mutated into the practices of hathayoga. observed by means of an advent and an commonly annotated translation, the paintings sheds mild at the improvement of hathayoga and its practices.

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