From 15th to 25th January 2018, a reading workshop of the ERC-funded “Haṭha Yoga Project” was held in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO.  Several editions of yogic works in Sanskrit are under preparation as part of the project, and some of these were studied and discussed during the course of the workshop, notably the Amaraughaprabodha, the Yogatārāvalī (Jason Birch, SOAS), the old Gorakṣaśataka (not to be confused with the Vivekamārtaṇḍa) and the Dattātreyayogaśāstra, (James Mallinson, SOAS), as well as passages from the old Yogayājñavalkya (Somdev Vasudeva, Kyoto University), the Kaulajñānanirṇaya (Shaman Hatley, University of Massachusetts, Boston), the yoganirṇaya of the Jayadrathayāmala (Somdev Vasudeva), the Siddhāntadīpikā of Rāmanātha (R. Sathyanarayanan, EFEO) and the Sarvajñānottaratantra (Dominic Goodall, EFEO).  The readings are expected to be light on varied ideas about the hierarchy of mantrayoga, layayoga, haṭhayoga and rājayoga, and both the constitution and the interpretation of many a passage was improved in the course of the discussions, which were lively and congenial.


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