Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson Tapa dura - 2005

Brill Academic Pub, 01 November, 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Spine/cover have excessive denting/creasing; which spreads to first half of pages. Although, pages are clean/intact.

Brill Academic Pub, 01 November, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. . Sealed in orginal plastic but plastic is halfway torn off on back cover/spine. Edges of cover are dented. Back of cover is creased.

Leiden: Brill, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. vii, (3), 478pp. Index. Plus (5)pp. publisher's catalog. Pictorial buckram, lavender spine lettered in white & black. Frontispiece portrait. Head of spine and lower corner of front cover slightly bumped. A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block. This collection of original essays provides fascinating insights into yoga as a historical and pluralistic phenomenon flourishing in a variety of religious and philosophical contexts. They cover a wide variety of traditions and topics related to Yoga: Classical Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantric Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, the Guru, Indic Islamic traditions of Yoga, Yoga and asceticism in contemporary India, and the reception of Yoga in the West. The essays are written by eighteen professors in the field of the history of religions, most of them former graduate students of Gerald James Larson, Larson is Rabindranath Tagore Professor… Leer más

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Brill Academic Pub, 2005. Hardcover. New. 478 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.