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04 Dec
06 Dec
2023
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Yoga and Tantra
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David Gordon White
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Historically, the Sanskrit terms “yoga” and “yogi” have very little in common. Whereas the former has one of the widest semantic fields of any word in the Sanskrit lexicon--ranging from “warfare” to “magical art,” to the more familiar denotations of meditation and postures associated with pātañjala and haṭha yoga--the latter has most often been employed to denote a powerful, but also dangerous and ultimately sinister figure more often associated with the dark arts than with quietest ascetic practice. In our meetings, we will examine the historical relationship between these two terms as represented in myth, image, and doctrine.
Session 1: Yoga and Warfare in Ancient India
Session 2: The Bodies of the Yogi
Session 3: Tantric Yogis and Tantric Yoga
Session 4: Mughal, Modern, and Colonial Accounts of Yogis
Online Platform: ZOOM
Duration -
December 4, 6, 2023
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
Fees
Rs. 2,000
Registrations Closed
David Gordon White
David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Associate Research Fellow at the Centre d’ÉtudesSud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes in Paris. He is the author of six books, including The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (1996); Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts (2003); Sinister Yogis (2009); andThe Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography (2014). He is also the editor of Tantra in Practice (2000) and Yoga in Practice (2010). He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2007, and three Fulbright Fellowships for research in South Asia.